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The so-called '''Equal Rights Amendment''' ('''ERA''') was a proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] passed by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification with a deadline for ratification of seven years.  It was stopped by a [[conservative]] grassroots movement led by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], which raised compelling objections including the following:

The so-called '''Equal Rights Amendment''' ('''ERA''') was a proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] passed by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification with a deadline for ratification of seven years.  It was stopped by a [[conservative]] grassroots movement led by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], which raised compelling objections including the following:

*it would require identical treatment of men and women, and boys and girls, in every way, such as allowing boys to compete in girls sports (as required under the Massachusetts ERA {{Citation needed}})

*it would require identical treatment of men and women, and boys and girls, in every way, such as allowing boys to compete in girls sports when a boy's school offers no boys' team for a sport (as required under the Massachusetts ERA {{Citation needed}})

*it would prohibit publicly run single-sex schools and classrooms

*it would prohibit publicly run single-sex schools and classrooms

*it would require drafting women just like men, and putting women in combat just like men

*it would require drafting women just like men, and putting women in combat just like men