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.

NAACP March 2025 Meeting featuring Carolyn Rude
Event Date: 
03/23/2025 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Event location: 

Old Hill School

 

The NAACP Montgomery Co. - Radford City - Floyd Co. Branch welcomes our very own Carolyn Rude as their credo speaker this month!

Event Date: 
03/25/2025 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Event location: 

Michigan Tech Husky Dog

Action Alert - League of Women Voters (Protestors with US flag)

Action Alerts

More than 100 years after some women gained the right to vote, the federal government has still not consistently recognized the constitutional right to sex and gender equality. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) constitutionally protects the equality of rights under the law regardless of sex.

Add Your Name to the Petition.

ERA Equal rights Amendment LWV
Blog Post

The League of Women Voters has been a steadfast advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and is committed to continuing this fight until equal rights is enshrined in the United States Constitution. Although the required 38 states have ratified the ERA, it has not yet been published in the US Constitution, thanks to an arbitrary time limit imposed by Congress in the 1970s. Read this update to understand the status of the ERA as of January 9, 2025, as well as the conflicting views about how to finally get it published.

Action Alerts

In the United States, women are still not guaranteed equal rights. We have seen the devastating consequences of this reality.

Believe in Feeedom
News

Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

by Anne Stone

Our Bodies Our Choice 2024-12-8
Event Date: 
12/08/2024 - 2:30pm
Event location: 

Blacksburg Community Center

Learn about proposed legislation and ways to make your voice heard to legislators about reproductive health issues. Connect to other local, state, and national organizations with a reproductive rights or social justice agenda.

Action Alerts

Send an email urging President Biden to instruct the US Archivist to certify and publish the ERA in the Constitution! 

League Lecture Series, Civil Rights, Hubert Humphrey
Event Date: 
10/24/2024 - 6:30pm
Event location: 

Iowa City Public Library

To mark the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, award-winning author Samuel G.

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