摘要：The sexes are human equals. Yet women, on the whole, are not men’slegal equals2 or, by most any standard, men’s social equals.3 The laws thatguarantee against discrimination—mainly the Fourteenth Amendment EqualProtection Clause4 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19645—have, Iargue, gone about as far as they will or can to produce equality of the sexesin life. An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is urgently needed, now asmuch as or more than ever.
