Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth

Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth

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When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and "All in the Family"'s Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight stat

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Equal Means Equal by Jessica Neuwirth

The Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by 35 states, just three short of the 38 states needed by the 1982 deadline. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognised by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA.
"The time is right for the ERA and a new movement of women and men, Democrats and Republicans alike, to put this fundamental right into our ConstitutionEqual Means Equal clearly and eloquently lays out the issues at stake and will be an essential tool for the movement."
—Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
The founder of the international women’s rights organization Equality Now, Jessica Neuwirth is the former director of the New York branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She lives in New York City. Gloria Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s. She lives in New York City.
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ISBN 13 9781620970393
ISBN 10 1620970392
Titre Equal Means Equal
Auteur Jessica Neuwirth
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur The New Press
Année de publication 2015-02-19
Nombre de pages 156
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