By Ava Lee-Green On November 21, the ERA Coalition hosted a town hall event to recap the 2022 election and what those outcomes mean for women’s equality. Zakiya Thomas, President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality, welcomed the audience and introduced the panelists. The Panelists…
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By Abi Ranganathan Our elect equality team has been at hard work trying to educate voters and get candidates ERA Certified before the elections. We certified 59 of the 360 applicants we got this year, and we are proud to say that 27 of our certified candidates won their election. …
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By Sana Mantaney The ERA Coalition is proud to co-sponsor the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Week of Action (November 14th-18th), calling for the solutions pregnant & postpartum workers need to stay healthy and on the job. Join us in calling on Senator Schumer to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act…
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New Campaign Brings Together Actors, Activists and Politicians to Support the One “Woman” in America with Rights the Government Will Actually Fight to Protect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqdG42seZKs WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 4, 2022 – The ERA Coalition is taking a bold new approach in the fight for women’s rights by ensuring that…
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We here at the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition are BIG readers, as you may have guessed, and we wanted to share some of our personal favorite reads. Are you adding any of these to your TBR list? What are you favorites? Our President & CEO, Zakiya Thomas, loves I Was…
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By Aryana Goodarzi Earlier this Summer, the California Legislature passed two measures in response to the Equal Rights Amendment. SCR 92 directs the California Law Revision Commission to analyze the State’s laws for sex discrimination. “The California Women’s Law Center and the Feminist Majority thank State Senator Connie Leyva for carrying SCR 92 and…
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Equal Rights Amendment Coalition President & CEO Zakiya Thomas welcomed everyone to this month’s town hall discussion, supported by the Harnisch Foundation. Thomas acknowledged that roughly 80% of people in the U.S. think that we already have an Equal Rights Amendment. Thomas exclaimed, “for those of you on this call…
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) was launched nationwide in October of 1987 as a way to connect and unite individuals & organizations working in regards to domestic violence issues while raising awareness for those complexities. Over the past 30+ years, a lot of progress has been made to support domestic…
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By Jennifer Tucker Making good on a campaign promise, this week the Biden-Harris administration announced that borrowers can apply for student loan debt relief. This is good news for women, who account for two-thirds of borrowers and their average debt is $30,000 for four years. According to the American Association…
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Carrie Chapman Catt, 1911Studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. View the original source document: WHI 3796 In recent years, Karen M. Kedrowski, the Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, took notice of, and concern in, a gap in the public knowledge surrounding the Equal…
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