Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now

by Jessica Neuwirth

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could . . . we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

Iroquois Confederacy was founded at least four centuries before Columbus arrived and included six of the major Native nations in North America.

The Iroquois Confederacy is now believed to be the longest-lasting and oldest participatory democracy in the world, one far more inclusive and also less dependent on military force than Athens was.

the greatest gift of the Founding Fathers was not democracy, but the contagious idea of democracy, not a perfect Constitution, but one that could keep changing.

colonial women had come from, 6 to 8 million women healers had been murdered as witches over a period of three to five centuries, thus wiping out their knowledge and allowing patriarchal religions to control reproduction.

the United States is one of only seven countries in the world (along with Iran, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and two small Pacific Island nations, Palau and Tonga) that have not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).