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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was an attempt to ensure that the rights of the U.S. Constitution would be applied equally to females as well as males. Why wasn't this amendment passed?
Alice Paul and the Equal Rights Amendment
Though she earned women the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, Alice Paul was unsuccessful with the Equal Rights Amendment.

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