The Equal Rights Amendment

<p>The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed Constitutional amendment that would explicitly guarantee legal equality under U.S. law, regardless of sex. But almost a century after it was first proposed, the ERA has still not been ratified. What's the hold-up?</p> <p>Lillian Cunningham is a journalist at <em>The Washington Post.</em> She's also host and creator of the podcasts <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidential-podcast/?noredirect=on" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Presidential</em></a>and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/constitutional/?utm_term=.cf06f2f7706e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Constitutional</em></a><em>.</em></p>