On March 22, 1972, in accordance with the constitutional amendment process described in Article V of the Constitution, the ERA passed the Senate and the House of Representatives by the required two-thirds majority and was sent to the states for ratification on March 22, 1972.

Did the Equal Rights Amendment ever get passed?

It's been 98 years since the Equal Rights Amendment—which would expressly forbid any sort of discrimination on the basis of sex—was first introduced. ... Five decades after the ERA was approved by Congress in 1972, Virginia ratified the amendment in 2020, and the quorum of 38 states was finally reached.

Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail?

Working women did not want the National Woman's Party to promote the ERA, either. The ERA, thus, faltered because it failed to take into account the needs of working women and women of color. ...