Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 25, 2007
Women's Rights Won't be Equal Until They're Written Into the Constitution
Forum Column - By Martha Burk - Nearly 90 years after its introduction in Congress, the Equal Rights Amendment still languishes, leaving women's legal protections enshrined only in instantly reversible statutes, executive orders and rules.
By Martha Burk
Aug. 26 is Women's Equality Day. Most Americans don't even know what it is, and aside from commemorations by a few female leaders on Capitol Hill, it is hardly noticed. But it marks one of the most important days of the last century for women - the day that the final state ratified the 19th Amendment in 1920, and women were granted the vote.
That year also mark...
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