Why the Equal Rights Amendment, a 1972 Ideal, Is Back

The push to amend the U.S. constitution to enshrine protections against sexual discrimination is back, almost half a century after the question was first put to the states. Advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment are mobilizing again now that 38 state legislatures, the number needed, have voted to approve it. The obstacles are considerable, including the inconvenient fact that the ratification deadline set by Congress came and went in 1982.