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EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Equal Means Equal. A national non-profit organization dedicated to the immediate publication, adoption and enforcement of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution.
NOW recognizes the ERA as the 28th Amendment after Virginia’s 38th state ratification in January 2020 (and the required 1 year after ratification).
A Congressional ERA Joint Resolution was introduced to recognize the ERA as valid as a way to eliminate any disputes related to the arbitrary time limit in the nonbinding resolving clause included when Congress passed the ERA in 1972.
All 218 Democratic House members and one Republican member currently are co-sponsors of the ERA Joint Resolution in this 119th Congress. However, the Republican leaders who control the House and Senate are opposed to the ERA and will not schedule a vote.
There is an urgency to recognize the ERA because it is needed more than ever to stop further rollbacks of women's rights. Without the ERA, Congress can amend or repeal existing laws, including Title VII barring sex discrimination in employment, educational safeguards of Title IX, VAWA, the Equal Credit Act, and more. The Executive Branch can stop enforcing laws and reverse Executive Orders, as is being done under the Trump Administration.
Without the ERA, courts can interpret laws narrowly, strip away any effectiveness or reverse long standing precedents as was done when the Supreme Court reversed Roe in the Dobbs decision; and without an ERA Joint Resolution, the Supreme Court could rule the ratification process must begin again with a 2/3rds vote in Congress and ratification by 3/4ths of the States.
We need Congress to affirm and recognize ratification regardless of any timeline so that the Supreme Court and all lower courts cannot remand the ERA back to Congress.
This is the purpose of Sign4ERA petition. Equal Rights Amendment Petition | Sign4ERA
A pro-ERA Congress needs to recognize the ERA. Senators and House Members need to know the urgency of a federal Equal Rights Amendment and a petition signed by people who support the ERA is how we let them know.
Should the November 2026 mid-term elections result in a pro-ERA Congress in both the House and Senate, ERA NOW and other supporting groups will take immediate actions. We will demand that the ERA Joint Resolution be reintroduced in the first 100 days of the upcoming 120th Congress (convening in January 2027).
After the Joint Resolution is introduced early in January, hearings must be held in the Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate. Congressional leadership must make adoption of the ERA Joint Resolution a priority using whatever procedures necessary for the ERA to be added as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
August 26th is the anniversary of women in the United States winning the constitutional right to vote in 1920. In 1973, Congress recognized this important historic date by declaring it as Women’s Equality Day.
The National Women’s History Alliance is working with partners (like MCNOW) in a campaign to advocate for even greater acknowledgement of the significance of Women’s Equality Day and the observance of it as a national day of celebration, in order to build momentum and bipartisan support for making it the next federal holiday. What you can do to help:
Sign our petition to demand that Women’s Equality Day (August 26th) be recognized as a National Day of Celebration.
Send a resolution to your state legislature or city council, or a proclamation to your governor or mayor.
Share our petition to your contacts.
Use the #DemandADayForWomen hashtag when talking about the campaign on social media!
Email NWHA for more information about this petition.
Sign the petition at bit.ly/htubman20
Americans have waited five years for the federal government to fulfill President Obama’s promise to
grace the front of the new $20 bill with a likeness of African American abolitionist and political activist
Harriet Tubman, a brave and resilient daughter of Maryland. The Montgomery County Democratic Party
is launching a nationwide petition to President Joe Biden to immediately take concrete steps to make this
promise a reality.
Updated October 5, 2026