Timeline: Key Dates in the Century-Long ... Paul's original amendment text stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted ...

takes part with suffragettes marching from the Women's Party Headquarters to the White House in the spring of 1917, to further their cause for voting rights. (AP Photo, File) ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a ... after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The ERA, if formally recognized as the ...