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A+E Networks. On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. First proposed by the National Womanâs political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. More than four decades later, the revival of feminism in the late 1960s spurred its introduction into Congress.
The 15 states whose legislatures never ratified the Equal Rights Amendment are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. Present Strategies For Ratification.7 which if passed, would eliminate the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment proposed to the states. It declares that such amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the necessary number of additional states, not under a time limit.