Equal Rights

Equal Rights

Support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and efforts to bring laws into compliance with the goals of the ERA. Support equal rights for all under state and federal law regardless of race, color gender, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or disability.

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Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias - 7:00 pm

Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias

Submitted by Wheaton, Illinois in August 2020.

Event Date: 
08/24/2020 - 7:00pm to 08/25/2020 - 6:45pm
Event location: 

via Zoom

Be an active participant in respectful discourse with other individuals on these timely topics and the role these concepts play in systemic racism. (There is an afternoon and evening session for this event.) This 7 - 8 p.m.

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Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias - 1:30 pm

Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias

Submitted by Wheaton, Illinois in August 2020.

Event Date: 
08/24/2020 - 1:30pm
Event location: 

via Zoom

Be an active participant in respectful discourse with other individuals on these timely topics and the role these concepts play in systemic racism. (There is an afternoon and evening session for this event.) This 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

DEI

Submitted by Delaware in July 2020.

News

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee encourage you to take this 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.

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Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Submitted by Central Delaware County in July 2020.

Position

LWV is an organization fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice.
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Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Equal Rights Amendment Text

Submitted by The Charleston Area in July 2020.

Action Alerts


ERA Advocacy Needed Now

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LWVUS Joins Case to Advance the Equal Rights Amendment

Equal Rights Rally

Submitted by Idaho in July 2020.

Press Mention

WASHINGTON – Late Tuesday, the League of Women Voters of the United States filed a friend of the court brief in the federal lawsuit Commonwealth of VA, IL, and NV v. Ferriero, a case that supports ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA

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Opinion: Bending Our Arc of History

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in June 2020.

News

There is a fine line between two types of historic events.

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White Fragility Redux

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in June 2020.

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Why It’s Time for a White Woman to Lead LWV-PA’s DEI Initiatives

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in June 2020.

News

Social justice educators refer to “agents and targets” when describing the oppressive differentials that exist between a dominant group and a subordinate group (Adams, Bell, and Griffin, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 1997).

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A League Member Speaks Up

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in June 2020.

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