What is the difference between the Equal Rights Amendment and the 19th Amendment for Women?

[stuman19]

I've done quite a bit of research and was hoping you guys could confirm my theory. Is it just that the 19th amendment is for the right for women to vote only and the ERA is for other citizenship priviledges that men took for granted? Did they kind of take place at the same time, meaning did women fight for both at the same time? Any thoughts are welcome please don't spend time doing research, that is my job. Just off the top of your head stuff.

Thanks for reading,
Stu

 

[Gulzakar]

lets see, civil rights gave equal treatment to non-aryian races... a great thing!

BUT

the 19th amendment was a terrible, terrible idea

 

[BeauJangles]

the ERA hasn't been passed.

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
lets see, civil rights gave equal treatment to non-aryian races... a great thing!

BUT

the 19th amendment was a terrible, terrible idea

YOURE a terrible idea. but not as terrible as the 19th amendment-OH! :Q snap.

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
the ERA hasn't been passed.

technically, it was passed but not ratified.

the ERA, had uninformed rednecks not blocked its ratification, would have made women completely equal to men under the law. 19th Amendment was around 1920 or so. the ERA was passed by congress in the 70s I think, but had been written decades earlier during the women's suffrage movement IIRC. surprisingly enough, it was women who really killed ERA, who were mainly reacting against media and schlafly portrayal of feminists as crazy man-haters who wanted to be drafted.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: LtPage1

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
lets see, civil rights gave equal treatment to non-aryian races... a great thing!

BUT

the 19th amendment was a terrible, terrible idea

YOURE a terrible idea. but not as terrible as the 19th amendment-OH! :Q snap.

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
the ERA hasn't been passed.

technically, it was passed but not ratified.

the ERA, had uninformed rednecks not blocked its ratification, would have made women completely equal to men under the law. 19th Amendment was around 1920 or so. the ERA was passed by congress in the 70s I think, but had been written decades earlier during the women's suffrage movement IIRC. surprisingly enough, it was women who really killed ERA, who were mainly reacting against media and schlafly portrayal of feminists as crazy man-haters who wanted to be drafted.

Wrong. ERA was proposed in the late 20s but NEVER passed. It is up for vote in this congress as well.

 

[FoBoT]

19th, allow women to vote - early 20th century

ERA - all kinds of whacky feminazi crap, go read it, the differences are obvious to even the most casual observer - 1970's (i remember my mother fighting against it when i was a kid)

 

[th3dumbguy]

19th, allowed women to vote. nothing else. i think it was in 1920 or something

ERA - would make women equal to men in ALL aspects. some pros some cons. it was shot down by some lady that encouraged it not to pass.
reason being, it would remove all benefits that women would get as opposed to men suuch as priority of custody of child in case of divorce, alimony money, etc. stuff like that.

era came after 19th amendment. believe it was proposed after WWII.

 

[stuman19]

Thanks for the feedback. That helps me quite a bit. I'm still fuzzy on why it didn't get passed, but hopefully I can iron that out. Thanks once again.

 

[ggavinmoss]

One passed, one didn't? One dealt with suffrage, one didn't. And uh... do your own homework?

-geoff

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

As I remember, the ERA was struck down because it would have meant women would have had to join the draft (complete equality under the law). Although it was the "redneck" states who opposed it first, many other states tried to go back on their decision later (which Congress did not allow them to do).

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LtPage1 surprisingly enough, it was women who really killed ERA, who were mainly reacting against media and schlafly portrayal of feminists as crazy man-haters who wanted to be drafted.

Maybe they thought it was unnecessary to reiterate the 14th amendment.

 

[th3dumbguy]

not they just didnt want to do the guys stuff and whent back to thinking that they were fragile and soft.