Establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

This resolution says that the Equal Rights Amendment, which bans discrimination based on sex, has been approved by enough states to become part of the Constitution, even though some of those states approved it after the original deadlines set by Congress. The Equal Rights Amendment was first sent to the states in 1972 with a deadline of 1979, which Congress later pushed to 1982. While 38 states did approve it (the number needed), three of them did so after the deadlines, and five states later took back their approval, so its status has been fought over in court.

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