Letter: Start the ERA all over again

A question for Charlotte Maloney, whose article in the Oct. 27 Opinion section proposed that the Utah Legislature ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution:On March 22, 1972, the ERA was submitted to the state legislatures, with a seven-year deadline to acquire ratification by three-fourths (38) of the states. By the 1979 deadline, only 35 states had ratified the amendment (with four states withdrawing their ratification during that time period — another question for the Suprem