New PDF release: Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights

By Jessica Neuwirth,Gloria Steinem

ISBN-10: 1620970392

ISBN-13: 9781620970393

When the equivalent Rights modification was once first glided by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was once president and All within the Family’s Archie Bunker was once telling his feisty spouse Edith to stifle it. Over the process the subsequent ten years, an preliminary wave of enthusiasm resulted in ratification of the period by way of thirty-five states, simply 3 in need of the thirty-eight states wanted via the 1982 cut-off date. a number of the arguments opposed to the period that traditionally stood within the method of ratification have long gone the way in which of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a brand new Coalition for the period was once lately organize to convey the adventure and knowledge of old-guard activists including the power and social media talents of a new-guard new release of women.

In a chain of brief, available chapters a number of key parts of intercourse discrimination famous by way of the ideal court docket, Equal ability Equal tells the tale of the criminal circumstances that tell the necessity for an period, besides modern circumstances within which women’s rights are compromised with out the safety of an period. protecting subject matters starting from pay fairness and being pregnant discrimination to violence opposed to ladies, Equal capacity Equal makes abundantly transparent that an period will increase the lives of actual ladies residing in America.

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