Biden Challenges Congress to Take Action on the ERA

President Joe Biden issued a challenge to Congress on Saturday “to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the [Equal Rights Amendment].'

“I will continue to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment as I have throughout my career,” said President Joe Biden in his official 2023 Women’s Equality Day proclamation.

President Joe Biden issued a challenge to Congress on Saturday “to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the [Equal Rights Amendment]”—part of his, when the U.S. celebrates the formal adoption of the 19th Amendment, which enshrined women’s right to vote into the Constitution in 1920. “It is long past time to definitively enshrine the principle of gender equality in the Constitution,” said Biden. “Together we can and must build a future where our daughters have all the same rights and opportunities as our sons, where all women and girls have a chance to realize their God-given potential, and where we can finally realize the full promise of America for all Americans.”

One hundred years ago, a pioneering group of women proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution. A century later, our fight continues to finish what they started, codifying women’s rights and gender equality once and for all.a joint

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