In America, it can take a person a while to learn that she is a second-class citizen.
Sadly, were autodidacts when it comes to the truth of gender injustice.
More specifically, weve been introduced to GillibrandsERANow Resolution, a novel strategy to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
An Equal Rights Amendment rally in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 28, 2022.Jose Luis Magana/AP
Before working for Gillibrand, we might have assumed that the Constitution ensured equality based on sex.
We would have been wrong.
The ERA included a ratification deadline of June 30, 1982.
The codification of womens equality in the Constitution of the United States is long overdue.
The ERA has already reached its ratification threshold.
Under the Constitution as in practice we refuse to remain second-class citizens.
