Constitutional Equality

Equality in pay, job opportunities, political structure, social security, and education will remain an elusive dream without a guarantee of equality in the U.S. Constitution. The progress we have made – and must continue to make – towards women's equality can be lost at any time because those advances depend on legislation that can be (and has been) weakened or repealed by Congress. Although we did not succeed in ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, winning a constitutional guarantee of equality for women remains one of NOW's top priorities.

The role of the Constitutional Equality Committee is to gather and catalog any information relevant to this topic. This information will be used by the legislative team to help in meetings with our legislators, in preparing testimony for legislative hearings, and in the writing of proposed legislation. As a member of this committee, you can help by doing that research to gather the information, by helping to organize the information into a form that's clear and easy to convey, or by helping with communication to help keep your own committee in the loop and also keeping the chapter as a whole in the loop as well. Other tasks may be needed as well, and your committee chair may call for additional help as it is needed.

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