The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but never ratified by the required 38 states (only 35 states voted for it by the time the deadline for ratification passed in 1982). It has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives on July 21, 2009 (but has gone nowhere). It said, in its entirety, the following:
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
a. Do we need an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution? Explain.
b. Provide ONE specific factual statistic to support your answer to (a).
c. Include the proper citation (web address is okay) of the source of your statistic in (a).
d. MAKE SURE YOUR STATISTIC is UNIQUE...NO TWO STUDENTS MAY HAVE THE SAME STAT...FIRST IN WINS!
e. Most Importantly . . . put your first name, last initial, and class period on your comment so you get credit!
1 comment:
Okay well I am redoing my blog cause apparently it got deleted and was unloved.
a. yes we need the equal rights amendment because it gives women and men the same opprutunities. In this day and age we'd like to think that they are all treated the same way but in reality they are not, and that makes this world an unfair place. In this economy women need to work just as much as men do because most homes need to survive off of dual paychecks.
b.women only make 77.5 cents for every dollar a man makes.
c.http://collegetimes.us/10-surprising-statistics-on-women-in-the-workplace/
b.
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