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The Equal Rights Amendment After Bostock: A Means To Expand Constitutional Protections For Sexual Minorities, Courtney M. Hogan
The Equal Rights Amendment After Bostock: A Means To Expand Constitutional Protections For Sexual Minorities, Courtney M. Hogan
Georgia Law Review
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was presumed dead in
the 1980s after a long battle for ratification failed, but it has
recently returned to public discourse with the latest wave of
feminist influence in the United States. The ERA declares that
equal rights under the law cannot be denied on account of sex.
In the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bostock v. Clayton
County, the Court interpreted similar language from Title VII
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which also prohibits sex
discrimination. In that case, the Court interpreted the statutory
prohibition on sex discrimination to include discrimination
against …