The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one.

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She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

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Women's rights groups advocate an international convention that would achieve the goals of the failed Equal Rights Amendment.

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The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment meant that all progress in creating an environment that supports working women stopped.

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Discrimination based on sex was also specifically outlawed, years before the rest of the country failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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