She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

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The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one.

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The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment meant that all progress in creating an environment that supports working women stopped.

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Discrimination based on sex was also specifically outlawed, years before the rest of the country failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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And in the 1970s and 1980s, conservative women invoked patriotic motherhood to argue against the equal rights amendment, saying it would unhinge the structure of the family and a woman's privileged place (their argument) in American society.

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