Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment today is a result of women coming together over decades, refusing to suffer in silence as we are discriminated against, paid less and subjected to gender-based violence, Democratic Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, the chief patron of the Virginia House bill, said.
So they worked to elect like-minded candidates to a state legislature that was almost entirely male, recalled Emily McCoy, a former activist with the National Organization for Women's Virginia chapter, which pushed for the ERA.
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