How can you be an ERA Advocate?

Are you ready to help get the ERA ratified? Here’s just a few things you can do to help:

• Check out the links available on this page, and share via social media.

• Download any part of the ERA Toolkit for FREE on this website and share with your friends and family.

• Share the ERA Toolkit social media materials by posting in your social media streams.

• Download a slideshow and make a presentation at your local library or other presentation opportunities.

• Purchase the “Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business for the Constitution” video (digital download) and watch with friends. Watch the trailer here.

• Read books about the Equal Rights Amendment with your book club.

• Visit www.AlicePaul.org to learn more about Alice Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Want to Learn More About the ERA?

Check out these great resources to learn more about the Equal Rights Amendment and the wide range of groups that support ratification. Below you will find links to media, publications, and organizations that support the ERA.

Download these informative documents:

ERA – A Brief History

ERA – Frequently Asked Questions

ERA – Two Routes to Ratification

ERA – Anti-ERA Arguments

ERA – New Ratifications Viable, Rescissions Invalid

ERA – Ratification by State and State ERAs Passed

ERA - After The 38th State Ratifies

Media & Publications

• "A New Era for the ERA," Jewish Women's Archive "Can We Talk" podcast, March 15, 2017 (interview by Nahanni Rous with ERA Coalition DC Director & COO Bettina Hager and Feminist Majority Foundation President Ellie Smeal)

• "Is the Equal Rights Amendment Relevant Today?" video of March 21, 2018 presentation at Belmont-Paul House

• "Iron Jawed Angels"

• PBS: "Sisters of '77"

• Senate Legislative Briefing, March 27, 2014

• Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now by Jessica Neuwirth, Esq., Executive Director, ERA Coalition

  • Watch Gloria Steinem and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) at the Jan. 15, 2015 book launch

• Ms. Magazine

• American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

• Equal Means Equal the documentary film by Kamala Lopez (2016)

Organizations

• Alice Paul Institute

• ERA Coalition

• Feminist Majority

• League of Women Voters

• National Constitution Center

• National Organization for Women

• National Women's History Project

• Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

• National Woman’s Party

• Business and Professional Women's Foundation

• Florida Equal Rights Alliance

• VA Ratify (Virginia)

Government & Academic Resources

• Congressional Research Service - Report on the ERA (2018)

• Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment 1923-1996

• National Constitution Center

• Congress.gov

• Illustrated Guide to Women's History Manuscripts

• Rights for Women: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (1848-1921)

• Library of Congress National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection

• National Archives