![]() ![]() ![]() She was the chairwoman of STOP ERA which believed President Carter was "using his wife" to promote the Equal Rights Amendment.ĭon Critchlow, author of Phyllis Schlafly and the Grassroots Right and Future Right, and the Katzin Family Professor at Arizona State University, says one issue was the amendment was loose in its wording. Phyllis Schlafly, pictured right holding a sign, demonstrating in front of the White House, on February 4, 1977. "A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother." ERA: Open to Interpretation "What I am defending is the real rights of women," Schlafly said at the time. Constitution, which stated "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex," had passed with both bipartisan and public support and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.īut the ERA included a seven-year ratification time limit clause (which Congress extended to 1982), and although 35 of 38 state legislatures needed for a three-quarters majority had voted to ratify the amendment, its proponents hadn’t counted on a conservative grassroots movement led by activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly that would ultimately lead to the ERA’s defeat, falling three states shorts. In 1972, it seemed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was all but a sure thing.įirst introduced to Congress in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul, the proposed 27th Amendment to the U.S. ![]()
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