President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as the 28th Amendment.

Did Florida ever ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the 1972 amendment that declared women equal under the law?

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.