Yesterday I filed a concurrent resolution calling for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

First proposed in 1923 this simple idea, that women should be treated as equal to men under United States law, is still not part of the U.S. Constitution. On March 22, 1972, after it passed the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the ERA was sent to the states for ratification. It takes 38 states to ratify an amendment. To date, 35 states have ratified the amendment. If this concurrent resolution passes, we will be the 36th state.

It's hard to believe that the fight to ratify the ERA in the states has been raging since I was a one-year-old. Maybe this will be the year!