Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...

Activist Alice Paul pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment after the 19th Amendment secured voting rights for American women. Photograph by Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress In 1923, Paul ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted ...

Alice Paul celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, in 1920. Three years later, she wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment.Credit ...