ERA in the News: JULY 18-24, 2020
INTERNATIONAL
July 17 'She was able to spell out the homemakers' big fear... that their world, their lives, were going to be...', Belfast Telegraph
July 17 Is Mrs America based on a true story? Real life events that inspired new BBC series, Mirror
July 18 Mrs America: The key players portrayed in the BBC drama about Women's Liberation, The Independent
July 18 How the first black woman to run for US presidency Shirley Chisholm declared, Daily Mail
July 22 Trans activists risk falling for misogyny, Spectator
NATIONAL
July 17 Weekend Reading: Post-COVID, What Kind of World Do We Want for Women?, Ms. Magazine
July 20 The right is dominating Facebook engagement on content about trans issues, Media Matters for America
July 23 ERA Ratification Suits Draw Wide Support and Pointed Opposition, Bloomberg Law
July 23 Is Hollywood Too Soft on Conservative Women?, Vanity Fair
July 24 The women who asked 'why not?', Jewish Chronicle
NATIONAL
ALASKA
July 18 League of Women Voters urges adoption of Equal Rights Amendment, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
CONNECTICUT
July 22 Votes for Women Ridgefield Partner Programs for August and September, Hamlet Hub
DELAWARE
July 22 Building Bridges: Women's March in Sussex going strong, Delaware State News
FLORIDA
July 20 Federal lawsuit over Equal Rights Amendment draws new allies and foes, Florida Phoenix
ILLINOIS
July 21 'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug--born a century ago-- would have been president, The Edwardsville Intelligencer
MICHIGAN
July 21 Chippewa Valley Celebrates 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, Volume One
NEW YORK
July 20 Seneca Falls celebrates historic moments in the fight for women's rights, WXXI News
July 20 Katrina's Dream Founder to Make Pilgrimage Calling on Congress to Remove ERA Deadline, PR Newswire
July 24 Bella Abzug, now more than ever: Build a statue in her honor, New York Daily News
PENNSYLVANIA
July 21 There's Work To Be Done On Gender Equality, Study Finds, The Pennsylvania Capital-Star
July 23 From a NJ madman to Congress and Fox News, America needs a reckoning on hate toward women, The Philadelphia Inquirer
SOUTH CAROLINA
July 19 Hilton Head Mayor John McCann wrong on police protection, Hilton Head Island Packet
July 20 Letters to the Editor: Private schools offer alternative to failing public schools, Charleston Post Courier
July 23 Suffrage sisters-Remembering the pioneers who helped push for women's voting rights, Charleston Post Courier
TEXAS
July 20 Voting Third Party is the Political Equivalent of Sending Thoughts and Prayers, Houston Press
July 24 What are political parties' platforms-and do they matter?, Beaumont Enterprise
VIRGINIA
July 18 BREAKING: Virginia Republicans Nominate Far-Right Extremist Nick Freitas in VA-7, Blue Virginia
WISCONSIN
July 17 A woman's place, Isthmus
OPPOSITION
July 18 Ginsburg Says She Can Still Do Supreme Court Job Despite Cancer Recurrence, The New American
July 22 How Mrs America's son is flying the conservative flag--and fighting Wikipedia's 'liberal lies', Telegraph