Why we lost the ERA
By: Jane J. Mansbridge.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Women's rights -- United States; Equal rights amendments -- United States; Feminism -- United States
Description: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would have guaranteed women the same equal rights as men, passed Congress with an overwhelming majority in 1972. During the following ten years, the public repeatedly endorsed it in opinion surveys. Yet, for all the favor it enjoyed in the abstract, the ERA was never able to muster concrete support in enough states to become the law of the land. In this provocative and controversial book, the author explains why, as she argues that the ERA failed because it did not result in substantive changes in the position of women.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 219-310.
Includes index.