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Evans convenes Washington State Women's Council on October 21,
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October 21, 1971, Governor Daniel Evans (b. 1925) convenes the
Washington State Women's Council. Its mission is "To consider
appropriate questions pertaining to the rights and needs of
women in contemporary American and to make recommendations to
the Governor and State agencies with respect to desirable
changes in program and law." During its first two years the
Washington State Women's Council worked to pass a state equal
rights amendment and a community property bill that would
require that the ownership and management of assets be equally
shared between married partners. Both of these measures became
law. The electorate ratified the Washington state Equal Rights
Amendment in November 1972. On March 22, 1973, the Washington
State Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States. Howeve