League of Women Voters ^®
of Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area

Pop quiz: What part of the U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights for women?
Answer: None of it.
The Constitution does not prohibit discrimination against women.
Read why the time is now for South Carolina legislators to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Many readers may not be aware that there is a revived movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Passage of H.3391 would make South Carolina the required 38th state to ratify the ERA and make it the law of the land. Now is the time to urge your state representative to join Weston Newton and support this bill in 2020.

SC state senator Tom Davis and Beaufort County Council member Mike Covert: what are their priorities? Where do they stand on key state and local issues?

The ERA is an amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal rights to all Americans, regardless of sex. The ERA would provide a fundamental and universal legal remedy agains discrimination for both women and men.