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Carol Jenkins alongside Carolyn Maloney, Heidi Schreck and Huma Abedin at ERA night after a performance of Suffs musical in April 2024. Jenkins was co-president and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women's Equality, [9] sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Jessica Neuwirth (born 10 December 1961) is an American lawyer and international women's rights activist. She is one of the founders of Equality Now, an international women's rights organizations established in 1992, and the founder and director of Frontline Women's Fund, a project hosted by the Sisterhood is Global Institute to support women's organizations around the world. [1]
Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) is an American non-profit gender justice/women's rights organization that was founded in 1974. ERA is a legal and advocacy organization for advancing rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of marginalized gender identities through legal cases and policy advocacy.
Equality Now was founded in 1992 in New York by attorneys Jessica Neuwirth of the United States, Navanethem Pillay of South Africa and Feryal Gharahi. The founders believed that acts of violence against women were violations of the fundamental human rights guarantees as stated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that the human rights movement to that point had neglected women ...
ERAmerica was founded as a coalition of groups in 1976 and consisted of over 200 organizations. [2] The headquarters were based in Washington, D.C. [3] The purpose of the organization as to seek ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The group was ultimately unsuccessful after the ERA failed in 1982. [4]
Here are some of the many notable moments in women's equality history: The 19th amendment was officially introduced in 1878 by women across the nation, who believed they, too deserved the right to ...
The author and legal scholar pays homage to those who've worked over the last century plus to secure women's rights. Kate Kelly’s “Ordinary Equality” Shows Us How Vital It Is That We Finally ...
The amendment proposed equal rights for women, and was first introduced to Congress in 1923, finally gaining Congressional approval in 1972. [5] Once Congress had approved the amendment, ratification by the states was requested and the typical 7-year time limit for ratification by two-thirds of the states was set in motion. [6]