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In 2019, women’s rights are still not explicitly recognized in US Constitution

Over nine decades, efforts to amend the US Constitution to recognize women’s rights have faced major challenges. Congress finally passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. The amendment would recognize women’s equal rights to men under the law. But it still hasn’t been ratified in all 50 states.

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