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The Ohio Ballot Board changed a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community, ...
The Urban League defined equality of results as group-level equality, that is, the U.S. would become a more equal nation only when the same proportion of any group in American society succeeded or ...
But here, we are speaking of equity in an older sense of the word to refer to the notion of “fairness.” Usually, once people agree on equality as a mutually held value between two people (or ...
Civil rights activists want the Oregon Constitution to guarantee reproductive and gender affirming health care. Here’s how ...
As the ERA gains renewed momentum and as sexual minority groups gain recognition and visibility in the sex equality movement, the same fear tactics that were used to stall the ERA in the 1970s and ...
After the latest failure of the Equal Rights Amendment in the US Senate, Marcie Bianco writes that it’s past time to give up the ghost of equality and pursue a goal that has hope of transforming ...
A constitutional amendment enshrining broad anti-discrimination protections and repealing Ohio’s dormant same-sex marriage ...
They don’t guarantee equal outcomes, but they strive to provide equal opportunity: public education, civil rights, legal protections. Of course, freedom and equality don’t always have to clash.
The Ohio Ballot Board put up a big hurdle for a group that wants to repeal Ohio's old constitutional ban on gay marriage and add LGBTQ protections.
Therefore, “equality” can’t be what we really value. Some of Frankfurt’s arguments get technical, but it’s not hard to think of cases where a mistaken focus on equality makes the world ...
Understanding the state of the Equal Rights Amendment depends on who you ask. Backers of the ERA say it went into effect as of January 27, having met all the constitutional requirements, and ...