Senate to vote on Equal Rights Amendment this week, potentially adding it to the Constitution.

The Senate will vote on a resolution this week to remove the 1982 deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would prohibit discrimination based on sex and explicitly state that women are equal to men in the US Constitution. The ERA was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed to be ratified by enough states before the deadline. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment, but a federal judge ruled that the deadline had passed. The resolution is bipartisan and was written by Senators Ben Cardin and Lisa Murkowski.