March is Women’s History Month, dedicated to remembrances of women’s courageous struggles across the decades. While we celebrate women’s progress in making impactful changes, so much more remains to be done. Take, for example, the yet-to-be passed ERA, the century-old 28th amendment to the Constitution to provide women equal protection under the law regardless of sex.  Just this month--March 2021--women Democrats advocated to remove a deadline for ratification that expired about forty years ago. With remarkable understatement, the bill’s sponsor, Jackie Spencer from California, said, “It is time to do what’s right and make sure that women are in the Constitution” (3.17.21). Many question whether just making us equal under the law will be sufficient to protect women and advance our rightful place in society....

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