Ordinary Equality

The A+ Amendment

Episode Summary

The ERA lay dormant until one man turned a C-grade paper into a new life goal. Kate speaks with Gregory Watson, the man responsible for ratifying the 27th Amendment -- thereby igniting a new push for the ERA.

Episode Notes

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Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.

To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:

• “Could 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Have New Life?” (Gregory Watson * Texas Scorecard * 2019)
• “The Strange Saga of the 27th Amendment” (Evan Andrews * History * 2017)
• The ERA and the Three-State-Strategy (C-SPAN * 2018) 
• “The Equal Rights Amendment: Why the Era Remains Legally Viable and Properly Before the States” (Held, Herndon, Stager * William & Mary Journal of Women & Law * 1997