Their problem is hiring and promotion discrimination. And here the ERA, even in the present form, may help out. This, they say, would give people more free time to be Human. Now, precedent suggests that women workers might be restricted to half-time jobs under such a plan. This doesn't give an academic woman sleepless nights.
Academic feminists legitimize their particular demands with general movement principles.
So they can force the movement to support them politically, without themselves having to return the favor. Take movement feminists' opposition to employment discrimination. Time to put your bodies on the line for our common cause. If they simply don't show, they come off churlish, hypocritical, and irresponsible. Or suppose they decide to tell her that they object to her particularizing, that they don't want just any woman, they want committed allies.