2009 Women’s Equality Day – Mom and I as we embarked on a journey to fulfill the legacy of our Foremothers.

Congratulations to Illinois for becoming the 37th and next to the last state) to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment #ERA which protects women and men from having our rights denied on the basis of sex. Congress must act now to formally remove their deadline on the ERA’s ratification which expired on June 30, 1982.

Have your members of Congress co-sponsored our bills in Congress aka #SJR5 (Senate) and #HJR53 (House)? If not, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to reach their offices and urge their cosponsorship to Finish the ERA today. With just one state left to go, victory is in sight, but Congress must do its part too!

United 4 Equality launched the ERA’s comeback in 2009 following the misogyny and sexism that plagued Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. We believed then as we do now that the path to full and equal citizenship for every Woman in America must never expire. Thank you, Maureen Gehrig, Mom, for educating your young daughter that “Women will never be safe until we have the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution.”

Little did you or I know that you had planted a seed that some 30 years later would blossom in both of us to form United 4 Equality and spearhead the ERA’s revival in Congress after a 29-year exile. Cheers to you, Mom, for your tireless courage and belief that we could and should win the ERA for generations yet to come. I Love You, Carolyn

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