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2024 Candidate Survey

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Every two years, the ERA-NC Alliance reaches out to EVERY North Carolina candidate running for Congress, the General Assembly and NC Council of State to determine their support for the Equal Rights Amendment. This year our survey is being conducted online, with follow up phone calls and visits to collect as complete a picture of candidates’ support for the ERA as possible before we all cast our votes in November.

A green checkmark means the candidate will co-sponsor and vote for the resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Many candidates also returned comments with their survey.

If the candidates on your ballot haven’t responded yet, ask them to respond to the survey! A request from a voter in their district may be all it takes to spur them to action.
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N.C. Politics 2024

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Our goal for 2024? Turn the NCGA “pro-ERA”

Turning the NCGA “pro-women” means an all-out effort from everyone.

First things first: Find out the hard facts about the N.C. political landscape. Then, use those facts to turn the NCGA.

Join us on Saturday, Feb. 3, at 11 a.m., as political science expert Michael Bitzer sheds light on North Carolina voting patterns and what we can expect for 2024. Zoom in with us for the maps, the candidates, the drama, the scoop!

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Thank you, Rosalynn Carter

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Rosalynn CarterWith her soft voice and steely will, Rosalynn Carter was an inspiration and a gentle goad to millions upon millions of girls and women around the world. When asked about events in her lifetime she most regretted, she said,

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified…Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

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2023 Annual Meeting

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2023 ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting
Saturday, December 9
11 A.M. – Noon
Virtual meeting on Zoom

On behalf of the ERA-NC Alliance, we deeply thank you for your support of the ERA-NC Alliance.  We invite you to join us for the annual meeting on the status of the Equal Rights Amendment and Alliance activities in 2023, as well as elections of Directors for 2024-2025. [Read more…] about 2023 Annual Meeting

ACLU of NC joins the Alliance

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The ERA-NC Alliance is pleased to announce our latest lead organization partner, the ACLU of North Carolina!

Chantal Stevens, Executive Director of the ACLU of North CarolinaExecutive Director, Chantal Stevens, writes, “The ACLU of North Carolina is committed to equal rights for all, regardless of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. Joining with the Equal Rights Amendment NC Alliance is another way to affirm our commitment to advocating for gender equality and social justice. [Read more…] about ACLU of NC joins the Alliance

86-year perspective on the ERA

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Roberta MaddenAlliance co-founder and former president, Roberta Madden, wrote an excellent article for the new Carolina Public Press opinion blog, NC Talks, about her lifetime of advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment.

“I often experienced sex discrimination in my experience of living in several different states over the past 86 years. In Louisiana, I couldn’t get a credit card in my own name, nor even a library card; and I was excluded from jury service. In Tennessee, I was paid 57%  of the wages earned by men for the same job. Despite some improvements in women’s status — we may now serve on juries, even get credit in our own names, and take home 83.7 cents for every dollar a man does — sex discrimination remains.  The recent reversal of women’s reproductive rights after decades of constitutional protection is a glaring example. Until the Equal Rights Amendment goes into the U.S. Constitution, women were not guaranteed equality under the law.”

Read the whole article here: 86-year perspective: Lingering sex discrimination and the need for equal rights amendment