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Legislative Mission:
Ensure pay
equity, equal educational and economic opportunities at all stages of
life, support pension and social security reform; and promote affordable
quality dependent care to help ensure economic self-sufficiency for women.
State:
National:
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The Equal Rights Amendment (not yet
Constitutional law)
The Equal Rights
Amendment affirms that both women and men hold equally all of the rights
guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution. It would provide a remedy for sex
discrimination for both women and men, and give equal legal status to women for
the first time in our country’s history.
The most important effect of the ERA would be to clarify the status of sex
discrimination for the courts, whose decisions still show confusion about how
to deal with such claims. For the first time, “sex” would be a suspect
classification like race. It would require the same high level of “strict
scrutiny” and have to meet the same high level of justification – a
“necessary” relation to a “compelling” state interest – as the classification
of race.
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Pay Equity
Family and Medical Leave
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