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Durham Passes an ERA Resolution!

November 13, 2016 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

Durham, North Carolina, USA downtown skyline.

Durham, NC – The Durham City Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at its regular council meeting on October 17, 2016. The action is being heralded as an historic event by members of the ERA-NC Alliance, who advocated for its passage. The council is the first municipal body in North Carolina to re-engage on the issue of fully enfranchising women in the United States Constitution.

In 1972 a proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed both houses of the U.S. Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. By a 1982 deadline, only 35 of the required 38 states had ratified the ERA. North Carolina was one of the states that failed to ratify the ERA. However, the state is becoming a leader in a new movement to pass the ERA.

Marena Groll, Co-Chair of ERA-NC, commended the action of the council as “forward-thinking and critically relevant.” The reemergence of the ERA occurs at a time of significant healthcarewell pharmacy political unrest for women who are increasingly the family breadwinners and community leaders, but continue to experience sexual discrimination. Groll stated that, “In this election cycle, we have been shocked into a national conversation about sexism and inequality. It’s an unsparing look at everything from wage inequity to rape culture. Women are powerfully positioned in the conversation as an important voting demographic on the issues.”

Groll predicts that blatant sexual discrimination will continue to drive a demand for constitutional equality. “The ERA will be the next defining step for women’s civil rights in America. We are caught up in a breaking wave of the most educated, communications-savvy women in the world. They aren’t going to sit still and be denied the constitutional tools to defend themselves against retro-cultural practices that are hostile to them and to their families.”

The Alliance will be taking the ERA campaign to other cities and counties across the state.

 

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