大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 equal rights amendment
释义:
equal rights amendment 平等权利修宪案
例句:
The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one.
Women's rights groups advocate an international convention that would achieve the goals of the failed Equal Rights Amendment.
The defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment meant that all progress in creating an environment that supports working women stopped.
Discrimination based on sex was also specifically outlawed, years before the rest of the country failed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
Wade and the Equal Rights Amendment, and allowed that she would not be surprised if her teen-age daughter had had sex or smoked marijuana.
In the 1970s, the Democratic and Republican parties supported a wide array of women's rights policies, including an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, publicly funded child care and equal pay for women.
And in the 1970s and 1980s, conservative women invoked patriotic motherhood to argue against the equal rights amendment, saying it would unhinge the structure of the family and a woman's privileged place (their argument) in American society.
Her appointment was very much a reflection of the times, in that her tenure predated the emergence of the Christian right and the conservative turn in the Republican Party, making it possible for a woman who supported abortion rights and the Equal Rights Amendment to serve in the party leadership role.
