ERA in the News: DECEMBER 6, 2025 - DECEMBER 19, 2025

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Dec. 12 The Far Right’s Gender Playbook “This line of thinking is hardly new. Phyllis Schlafly, who spearheaded the effort to block the US Equal Rights Amendment decades ago, similarly insisted that feminism would destroy Western civilization by pulling women away from their “natural” roles as mothers and homemakers. The appeal of these ideas among women underscores just how effective authoritarian and far-right movements have been at persuading younger people that the left cares only about advancing minorities while the right is looking out for “people like them.” Women of color and LGBTQ+ communities will be the first to suffer, but they will not be the only ones.” Project Syndicate

Dec. 15 Bill of Rights Day “It is perhaps relevant to note that the US has ratified but three of the nine core UN human rights treaties and only somewhere around five of the eighteen major international human rights instruments. Oh yes, we've also never ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Just sayin’” Daily KOS