Equal Rights Amendment

National Organization for Women

A profile of the National Organization for Women, founded in 1966 to work for women's equality.

Campaign Committee Against the Equal Rights Amendment

A profile of a 1938-39 organization which opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan led the National Organization for Women to its active support of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Alice Paul

She introduced the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, and by the time it was passed in Congress in 1970, it was often called the Alice Paul Amendment.

Gloria Steinem Quotes

Quotes from Gloria Steinem, one of the most active and visible advocates for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.

Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923-1996

From the National Organization for Women, a timeline showing key events in the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.