Tennessee state Senator Gloria Johnson joined former Congress Member Carolyn Maloney at the Ms. magazine forum on Sept. 18, 2023 to talk about ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.
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The decades-long push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the U.S. Constitution continued in Manhattan Monday.
Former East Side Congress Member Carolyn Maloney joined Gloria Johnson, Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate and member of the “Tennessee Three,” as well as several feminist advocates, journalists and a constitutional law expert to discuss the ongoing fight for the proposed amendment.
The Sept. 18 event — held a day after the 234th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution’s ratification — took place at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College for the occasion of honoring the 50th anniversary of Ms. Magazine, a publication with a rich history of documenting the fight for women’s rights.
“Women and girls are not equal under the law. That’s why more than ever, we have to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to our U.S. Constitution,” said Johnson, the state senator who was invited to speak after she was nearly expelled from the Tennessee General Assembly earlier this year when she and two of her colleagues protested gun violence.
In recent years, political momentum has been building to enshrine the proposed constitutional amendment that would explicitly codify sex equality into constitutional law. Maloney is the chair of the ERA Coalition, an organization dedicated to enacting the amendment.
The goal: “To get a vote before the 2024 election on the ERA so that we can hold people accountable, and vote for them if they support us and against them if they don’t,” said Maloney.
Some legislators and feminist advocates believe that enacting the constitutional amendment provide a path forward to protecting reproductive rights in the aftermath of last year’s Supreme Court decision overturning of Roe V. Wade. The…
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