I'm now in Phyllis Schlafly mode: Yesterday, a group of 120 Democrats sent a letter to President Joe Biden, who is apparently still kickin', asking him "to take immediate action to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
The ERA is a zombie that won't die. First introduced 101 years ago, in the wake of suffragettes winning themselves and their peers the right to vote, the amendment was meant to eliminate laws that discriminate on the basis of sex. At the time, critics feared that this would winnow away certain protections available to women; The Washington Post notes, for example, that organized labor folks were worried that workplace protections which "capped the number of hours women could work, excluded them from certain occupations and imposed limits on heavy lifting" would be barred.
