Category: THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF
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The Constitution’s Broken Promise: How a Century of Political Cowardice Has Left American Women WIthout Legal Equality – and Why the Clock is Running Out
More than a century after the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in the United States Congress, American women remain the only demographic group whose constitutional right to equality is not explicitly guaranteed by the nation’s founding document. This article examines the historical, legal, and empirical dimensions of that omission — tracing the ERA’s…
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How the Supreme Court Shapes Women’s Lives: A Primer on Judicial Power
A nonpartisan feminist analysis of the Court’s power over gender policy In June 2022, a decision emerged from the Supreme Court of the United States that had not been formally announced, and yet it was already national news: a leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization signaled that the Court was prepared…