ERA in the News: MARCH 21, 2026 - APRIL 3, 2026

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Mar. 23 On The Road, One Conversation At A Time: The Case For The ERA Is Landing “Public support for the ERA is widespread, but awareness of its current legal status remains uneven. By turning brief encounters into conversations—and conversations into signatures—the campaign is translating passive support into visible, organized demand.” Ms. Magazine

Mar. 24 The Status of Abortion-Related State Ballot Initiatives Since Dobbs “Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade, voters in 17 states have weighed in on ballot measures regarding abortion– some more than once. In November 2026, voters in Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia will weigh in on abortion measures that could change the legal status of abortion in their state. In addition, measures in Idaho and Nebraska are in the process of collecting signatures.” KFF

Mar. 24 All *Men* Created Equal “The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul founder of the National Women’s Party, which had identified more than 300 laws that exposed the rampant and degrading discrimination against women based on their sex, including employment, child custody, property and rape, to name a few. As proof of the intrangency of misogyny, the ERA has been one of the most controversial and challenged pieces of legislation in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the 1970s conservative Phyllis Schlafy denounced the ERA as “an assault on the family and on the role of women as wives and mothers.” In 1982 the ERA Amendment failed to meet its deadline requiring 38 states to ratify it.” LA Progressive

Mar. 28 Pretty, Passive, Political: How The ‘Tradwife’ Makes Reactionary Politics ‘Normal’ “The TikTok tradwife has a long political lineage rooted in conservative movements. In the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly led the campaign again the Equal Rights Amendment in the US. She was a homemaker, defending women from the dangers brought by feminism. She baked pies for legislators, smiled in television interviews. She framed her opposition to gender equality as a defense of wives and mother.” EA Worldview

Mar. 27 The War On Our Bodies Is A War On Democracy “Meanwhile, Kansas lawmakers aim to revise their state constitution to ban abortion by, get this, masquerading the proposal as an equal rights amendment—to “clearly guarantee the equal rights of men and women, beginning at conception.” Ms. Magazine