The Feminist Argument Against
The EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Protecting single-sex spaces for women and girls requires the ability to sometimes discriminate on the basis of sex
The Equal Rights Amendment
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
The ERA has long been assumed to be an obvious win for women. However, WoLF’s legal analysis has concluded that the amendment may be used against women to end single-sex spaces, services, and accommodations by applying “strict scrutiny” to sex discrimination. In this series of posts, we explain the feminist argument in opposition to the amendment.
The Feminist Argument Against the Equal Rights Amendment
What is the ERA and why is it bad for women and girls?
The History of the ERA and What We Should Learn From It
What earlier women’s rights activists can teach us
How Intermediate Scrutiny Protects Women and Girls
Recognition of sex is a precondition of equal treatment
How Strict Scrutiny Would Devastate Sex-Based Rights
The future of sex anti-discrimination law in the age of Bostock
The MRA/TRA Case for the Equal Rights Amendment
What we can learn from the patriarchy’s embrace of the ERA