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The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
She believed that the institution of the family as "the basic unit of society [...] is the greatest single achievement in the entire history of women's rights." [61] She stated that "the future of our nation depends on children who grow up to be good citizens, and the best way of achieving that goal is to have emotionally stable, intact families."
Gillibrand makes a last-minute White House push for women’s rights constitutional amendment. ... enshrines equal rights for women. An amendment to the Constitution requires three-quarters of ...
Overall, the women's rights movement declined noticeably during the 1920s. Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment did not in actual practice provide suffrage to all women in the United States. [282] Women's rights to a public identity were restricted by the common law practice of coverture. [283]
Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when early ...
Lesley Abdela (born 1945) – women's rights campaigner, gender consultant, journalist who has worked for women's representation in over 40 countries including post-conflict countries: Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Aceh. In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and ...
Congress sent the amendment, which guarantees men and women equal rights under the law, to the states in 1972. WASHINGTON The post Effort to revive amendment giving women equal rights with men ...
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.