![President Jimmy Carter signing an extension of the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification in 1978.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB%202%20Carter%20Signing%20ERA.jpg?itok=tezLIBtS)
Carter Signing ERA
![A map depicting the states that have adopted state resolutions akin to the Equal Rights Amendment.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB%209%20State-Level%20Provisions.jpg?itok=ysbBufX4)
State-level Provisions
![A t-shirt worn by a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1980s.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2%20ERA%20Countdown.jpg?itok=zBXvnWRk)
ERA Countdown
![Fifty members of the National Woman’s Party meeting with President Warren G. Harding.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5%20National%20Woman%27s%20Party%20with%20Harding.jpg?itok=Z5RUKQcX)
National Woman’s Party with President Harding
![Conditions in commercial laundries at the turn of the century were difficult and dangerous.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/7%20Turn-of-the-century%20Laundry.jpg?itok=_GvIS9bj)
Turn-of-the-century Laundry
![National Woman’s Party delegates of New York lobbying Governor Al Smith.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/8%20National%20Woman%27s%20Party%20and%20Al%20Smith.jpg?itok=NxlhWxxS)
National Woman’s Party and Governor Al Smith
![Envoys of the National Woman’s Party in Rapid City, South Dakota.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/9%20National%20Woman%27s%20Party%20Envoys.jpg?itok=r-ZoMryN)
National Woman’s Party Envoys
![Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in 1961 at the fiftieth anniversary of the Triangle Fire.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/11%20Roosevelt%20and%20Frances%20Perkins.jpg?itok=q3pE_DGn)
Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins
![Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with members of The Women’s Trade Union League.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/12%20Roosevelt%20and%20Women%27s%20Trade%20Union%20League.jpg?itok=Ulfs2a6E)
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women’s Trade Union League
![President John F. Kennedy meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt and other prominent women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/13%20President%27s%20Commission%20on%20the%20Status%20of%20Women.jpg?itok=DLRi4wGY)
President’s Commission on the Status of Women
![President John F. Kennedy with members of the American Association of University Women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/14%20Kennedy%20and%20the%20AAUW.jpg?itok=ojMPEO05)
President Kennedy and the American Association of University Women
![Congresswoman Martha Griffiths.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/18%20Martha%20Griffiths.jpg?itok=EL_VCINz)
Congresswoman Martha Griffiths
![A poster mocking evangelist Pat Robertson's quatation.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/19%20Pat%20Robertson%20Quotation.jpg?itok=yffFLHGt)
Pat Robertson Quotation
![First Lady Betty Ford crossing her fingers and wearing a button in support of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/21%20Betty%20Ford.jpg?itok=CKFPqRZz)
First Lady Betty Ford
![A sign from the 2017 Women’s March quoting Eleanor Smeal.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/23%20Eleanor%20Smeal.jpg?itok=XUN2lRPz)
Eleanor Smeal Quotation
![Phyllis Schlafly with fellow opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/24%20Phyllis%20Schlafly.jpg?itok=JTSFjXsq)
Phyllis Schlafly
![A map depicting participation in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/world%20map_1.jpg?itok=t-YpXtfe)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
![With the bill’s namesake at his side, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/28%20Lilly%20Ledbetter.jpg?itok=28XOHAQS)
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
![A protester’s sign mocks the notion of prescribed gender roles at a demonstration in Paris, France.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/29%20Sushi%20Rolls.jpg?itok=IXPo_o3j)
Sushi Rolls Not Gender Roles
![A graph depicting the wage gap between men and women from 1980 to 2009 as a ratio of female to male earnings.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/31%20Female-to-Male%20Ratio.png?itok=4Rw3UJNy)
Female-to-Male Earnings Ratio
![A map of the states that had ratified the ERA.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/us%20map_1.jpg?itok=qnb3B79a)
ERA Ratification Status