The Equal Rights Amendment wouldn't make it out of committee today. It's funny just how much attitudes on racial and sexual equality have moved backwards since then, even if there's been a little bit of progress on other fronts (most notably in the field of LGBT equality). I guess when you have a mass movement of pissed off people fighting for their rights that puts a lot of things into perspective, compared to today, where the only mass movements we see are unorganized, spur of the moment, hashtag affairs.
Keep in mind that the first ladies or would-bes haven't said much on anything like it, as opposed to Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford both being very very strong supporters of the ERA in the 70's.
Nevermind that FLs have a bit more clout than they used to and that they very could use that figure-head clout to bring it up.
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