Recently, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). People rejoiced and slapped one another on the back, forgetting that when the provision was introduced in the 1970s, it had a 7-year expiration date. No matter how good it felt, the ratification of ER

In 1972, Phyllis Schlafly,  (Click) opponent of the ERA amendment said, “the women’s libbers don’t understand that most women want to be a wife, mother and homemaker – and are happy in that role.” (“Real Housewives,” by Sarah Jones, New Republic, May 2017, pg. 58.)  I�

Newton’s third law of motion, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, extends from Mother Nature to human nature.  Any mass movement will attract a large number of nay-sayers.  Just as Phyllis Schlafly opposed the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1960s, some wo

I sat down to tea with a woman who’d retired recently. She was the daughter of a dear friend, now deceased, and so we walked down memory lane together, recollecting her mother’s life as a homemaker. As the 93rd anniversary of the Women’s Rights Amendment (August 18, 1920) had ju