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...could not be entirely interpreted as a rebuke to women's rights. The sweeping simplicity of the amendment?"Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex"?made many voters, especially women, nervous. The anti-ERA lobby, led by Phyllis Schlafly???a conspicuously liberated woman who at 51 is working for a law degree?conjured up the prospect of unisex public toilets, an end to alimony, women forced into duty as combat soldiers. In fact, the effects of the ERA are not known, and some constitutional lawyers argue that it would be better...
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