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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 only right that the Constitution specifically affirms to be equal for women and men is the right to vote by the 19th Amendment of 1920.) The 14th Amendmentâs equal protection clause has never been interpreted to guarantee equal rights for women as the Equal Rights Amendment would do.nother reason to reopen the debate and adopt an Equal Rights Amendment is the current discrimination between women and menâs wages. It has been shown that women are paid 77 cents to every dollar earned by men fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act.