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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:

• Florida Federation 2006-2007 Legislative Platform ( .pdf )

• Contact Florida state Senators ( .pdf ) or Florida state Representatives ( .pdf ).

National:

• 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.

  • BPW/USA Equal Rights Amendment Resource Center
  • http://www.equalrightsamendment.org
  • The ERA Campaign Network
     
• Pay Equity
  • National Committee on Pay Equity
  • BPW/USA Policy & Informational Toolkit
  • The Red Purse Society
  • The WAGE Project

     

• Family and Medical Leave
  • National Partnership for Women & Families
     

   

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