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The Vote | Digital Short

From Women’s Suffrage to the ERA, a Century-Long Push for Equality

From the Collections: Retro Report | Women in American History

Is the U.S. at a tipping point in the nearly 100-year-long fight to ratify the ERA?

Virginia recently became the latest state to ratify a constitutional amendment that the country has been fighting about for nearly 100 years since it was first proposed by Alice Paul and other women's suffragists. Has the United States reached a tipping point in the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?

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