Kelly Whited Jones: “Utah women fought for the ERA for a century. LDS General Relief Society President Amy Brown Lyman and General Young Women’s President Lucy Grant Cannon championed the ERA in the 1940s.'
Kelly Jones, left, and Jody England Hansen dress up as Silent Sentinels , as they attend the legislative session on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, to encourage Utah legislators to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.This week commemorates one hundred years of work to ensure full constitutional equality under the law through the Equal Rights Amendment.
Opponents are invested in walking back the hard-won rights women have gained since the 1920s when the ERA was first proposed in Congress, and the 1970s when it passed the House and Senate and went to the states to ratify. Excuses for nonsupport include procedure, or the timeline, but consider for a moment why a seven-year timeline was applied in the first place?They wanted to stop it. This spring,Utah women fought for the ERA for a century.
When signed into law, the ERA will have two years to take full effect and sort out the legal definitions. First, the ERA will ensure that federal laws cannot discriminate based on sex. Secondly, the courts will be required to use a stricter standard in sex discrimination cases under the ERA. This means that more of us will find justice in the courts.only 11% of sexual assault cases to court
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