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Testifying before a House panel Thursday, State Senator Jennifer McClellan told members of Congress that the time has come to add a new amendment to the Constitution, one that says equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Virginia could soon cast the deciding vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. It was first proposed almost a hundred years ago and came close to becoming the…

A proposal to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia is all but dead.A Republican-controlled committee in the House of Delegates voted down the…

It’s been decades since lawmakers first started debating the Equal Rights Amendment. And it’s a debate that’s still going strong.The bell-bottoms are long…

It’s been 46 years since Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.Now, all these years later, Virginia may end up playing a…