Today, the Nevada State Senate votes on the Equal Rights Amendment. In a few weeks, the Assembly will take up the measure.
State Senator Patricia Spearman introduced the idea. She says the amendment is simple.
“We’re still at a place right now where women earn less than men and state by state they’re passing laws to get to pay equity," she said, "The Equal Rights Amendment what it says is this: you cannot abridge the rights of anyone based upon sex and so it means once it is adopted fully into the Constitution it means everyone who happens to be a woman is now constitutional equal to their male counterparts.”
If it passes, then only two states remain to ratify the 1972 measure, and Congress MAY make it the 28th amendment to the Constitution.
But that's not guaranteed. The original ERA measure was subject to a seven year time frame. Congress extended it three years, and it still didn't pass. Since then, some of the 35 original states that had passed it have rescinded their votes.
Advocates argue that the seven year time limit to ratify the amendment is moot, because the language is not part of the bill, itself. The time limit was imposed by Congress outside of the bill.
Established in 1995,
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