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Event: Nov. 9, How The Equal Rights Amendment Began, How It Failed, And Should It Live Again?

Event Date: November 9
Location: The Great Hall in Prothro Hall, Perkins School of Theology
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Join us for the second event in the Excavate, Energize, Equalize: Propelling American Women in Thought and Deed series. Our first speaker is Professor Marjorie Spruill, a specialist in U.S. women’s history and the author of the new book, Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. She will discuss the history of the struggle for the ERA in the twentieth century. Our second speaker is Professor Julie Suk of Cardozo Law School, who is an expert on comparative equality law. She will bring us up-to-date on contemporary legal thinking about gender equality under the law.

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