After a decades-long fight, Biden signed the 28th amendment into law before leaving office. Under Trump, advocates say that ...

Eighty-five percent of country constitutions worldwide guarantee equality for women. The United States Constitution isn’t one of them. Ratified in 1920, the 19th Amendment granted American women the ...

Credit: MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan For two straight sessions, backers of placing an equal rights amendment in the Minnesota Constitution were minutes away from a victory they’d been ...

Gov. Janet Mills stands her ground against President Donald Trump's demand that the state drop the policy, saying the president is claiming executive power that he doesn't have.

After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...

To shine a light on the issue, the Gray Democratic Caucus collaborated with the Maine ERA for All Coalition to host a discussion around efforts to add an Equal Rights Amendment to Maine’s state ...

Democrats in both chambers have filed resolutions that celebrate and affirm former President Joe Biden’s pronouncement made on his way out the door that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the ...

(ABC 6 News) — There is a renewed push for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution. “In Minnesota, we believe in freedom, fairness and equality for everyone no exceptions ...

At the State House, we’ve heard a lot from Maine’s Republican lawmakers in recent weeks about the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls. If they are serious about protecting these ...

Advocates say in the face of successful and attempted rollbacks of civil rights, the need for equal protection has ... several spoke in favor of the amendment. Also read: Maine GOP lawmakers ...