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Equal Rights Amendment

The Equal Rights Amendment is defined as an amendment to the United States Constitution first proposed in 1972 to give equal rights to women and men.

(noun)

An example of the Equal Rights Amendment is a guarantee that sex discrimination is illegal.

See Equal Rights Amendment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied to a resident of the U.S. on account of sex

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