Read the excerpt from "For the ERA." There are objections raised to wiping out laws protecting women workers. No one would condone exploitation. But what does sex have to do with it?
Read the sentence from "For the ERA."Different ages of majority based on sex would have to be harmonized.
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA." For instance, the Constitution guarantees due process of law, in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. But the applicability of due process to sex distinctions is not clear. Women are excluded from some state colleges and universities. In some states, restrictions are placed on a married woman who engages in an independent business. Women may not be chosen for some juries. Women even receive heavier criminal penalties than men who commit the same crime.
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA."Sex prejudice cuts both ways. Men are oppressed by the requirements of the Selective Service Act, by enforced legal guardianship of minors, and by alimony laws. Each sex, I believe, should be liable when necessary to serve and defend this country. Each has a responsibility for the support of children.
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA."Mr. Speaker, House Joint Resolution 264, before us today, which provides for equality under the law for both men and women, represents one of the most clear-cut opportunities we are likely to have to declare our faith in the principles that shaped our Constitution. It provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists.
Read the sentence from "For the ERA." Jury service laws not making women equally liable for jury service would have to be revised.
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA."The amendment would be largely self-executing—that is, any federal or state laws in conflict would be ineffective one year after date of ratification without further action by the Congress or state legislatures.
Read the sentence from "For the ERA."The selective service law would have to include women, but women would not be required to serve in the armed forces where they are not fitted, any more than men are required to serve.
Which sentence from "For the ERA" contains a minor detail that should not be included in a summary of Chisholm's ideas?
Read the excerpt from "For the ERA." In any event, there has for years been great controversy as to the usefulness to women of these state labor laws. There has never been any doubt that they worked a hardship on women who need or want to work overtime and on women who need or want better paying jobs, and there has been no persuasive evidence as to how many women benefit from the archaic policy of the laws.
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