Equal Rights Amendment
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Oct 31, 2026
Connie WhiteGUEST
Let them do it.
Joe MuhlbergerHOST
Now, you were around when the Equal Equality Act, what did they call it? Equal Rights Act, I think of 1974 or 5, didn't make it in Congress.
Joe MuhlbergerHOST
You were young enough then to, you were serving at the time.
Joe MuhlbergerHOST
What were your thoughts, if you can recall those days, of that not making it through Congress?
Sarah LanganGUEST
you know, who single-handedly broke the ERA.
Sarah LanganGUEST
We don't have an equal rights amendment.
Sarah LanganGUEST
It's absurd.
Sarah LanganGUEST
The whole amendment is just like, women should be equal to men.
Sarah HenryHOST
So just by way of introduction, before we get into our conversation, Professor Julie C. Suk is a leading scholar of comparative constitutional law and a professor of law at Fordham University in New York.
Sarah HenryHOST
Julie is the author of several important books exploring the relationship between law, democracy and equality and including After Misogyny, How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It, and We the Women, the Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Sarah HenryHOST
Can't wait to read those books.
Sarah HenryHOST
Her latest book, The Shadow Court, Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court, tackles one of the most pressing constitutional questions facing the United States today.
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Julie C. SukGUEST
But that's why we got an amendment.
Julie C. SukGUEST
And we had these robust hearings about what would the relationship and how would this amendment work? Like, what would the legal relationship of this amendment be to the Supreme Court's decision saying something else? Right.
Julie C. SukGUEST
Same with and this is an amendment that did not ultimately get ratified within the time limit, but the Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing equality of rights.
Julie C. SukGUEST
unabridged on account of sex, equal rights for women.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
And talk about powerful women.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
She changed the rules, changed the Republican Party's position on the Equal Rights Amendment and on choice and on a number of other things.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
And it was after her tenure with the Republican Party that the Republican Party was less and less likely to embrace strong women leaders.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
Now, there have been some amazing Republican women governors.
15 MINS LATER
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
One works in philanthropy, but they're really trying to do the right thing and living in a very soulful and careful way on this planet and building community where they are.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
So that is very inspiring.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
Most of you don't know my children or you don't yet, So I will say that there are people like Jeanette Rankin and Alice Paul, who's a fellow Swarthmore College alum who wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, and Eleanor Roosevelt and Shirley Chisholm and Patsy Mink, these women who took on structures and tried to make them more inclusive, those are the women who really inspire me.
Cynthia Richie TerrellGUEST
And it gives me hope.
Dolly PartonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
right
Summer YeagerHOST
but my point is is that in feminist literature the man is always the bad guy the husband is always the bad guy um it's never ever going to be the woman And the book that I was reading that was talking about this was trying to argue that, you know, this whole Stepford Wives thing, it came out of the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment in that era.
Summer YeagerHOST
Yeah.
Summer YeagerHOST
And that it was all about women should be able to have agency and be treated equally and all these things.
Summer YeagerHOST
And we need to put this on the books.
Summer YeagerHOST
But what was so interesting to me is that at the time when the movie came out, so I believe that was 1975, more men, a Gallup poll showed that more men supported the Equal Rights Amendment at the time than women did.
Summer YeagerHOST
more men and i mean like almost 10 percent more of american men which is in terms of polls a pretty significant number
JoyHOST
i mean by the time the 70s hit a lot of the like the waves had really done their job like it wasn't that there was wasn't more work to be done clearly because we have a third and fourth wave in my in our opinion um but yeah it's like the the work was done you know how like it's my one of my it's like when you hear um you know we really need to work to end the stigma around getting mental help
HannahHOST
Their workshop, their Femininity Institute, offered workshops where it's just basically all about keeping a man happy.
HannahHOST
And when I say that Maureen was an anti-feminist activist, I mean the way that this woman campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment.
HannahHOST
Her and Phyllis Shafley.
HannahHOST
Exactly.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Right.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
And I do think that there's value in doing that kind of work in setting up the legislatures because what we want is for that to pass Congress and for all of the state legislatures to just fall in line like a domino and to not have it be like the Equal Rights Amendment, which just languishes and languishes and languishes and then ultimately never gets added to the Constitution despite having enough states ratify it.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
That's what we don't want.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
How do you define
Michelle MartinezGUEST
And how does that mirror society? And again, Scream With Me does a really good job breaking all this down.
Michelle MartinezGUEST
And like tying Pazuzu to that domestic abuser, especially in the timeline when women are trying to get, they don't have, they're trying to get still the Equal Rights Amendment passed.
Michelle MartinezGUEST
They are trying, they don't yet have credit, aren't able to do credit cards in their name.
Michelle MartinezGUEST
Not till like two more years, but not till 74.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
He'd won the Senate race by 60%.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
the last two times and he comes up and all of a sudden millions of dollars shows up into his campaign up in Idaho, publicizing the fact that he supported the Equal Rights Amendment.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
To freak everybody out.
Daniel SheehanGUEST
And he actually supported limiting the sale of complete automatic weapons to people under 18.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
And so it took that real correction, institutional correction from which happens in the 70s, which then triggers down to the states as well.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
So and what else is happening in the late 70s? We also have the Equal Rights Amendment movement.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
So we have a revigorization of women's rights.
Tracy ThomasGUEST
But and at that point, we also start to get Republican women.
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