Vickie Samuelson: The fight for the ERA is not over

Did you know that our U.S. Constitution has no prohibition for discrimination on the basis of sex? That’s not for lack of trying.When Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA this past January, we came tantalizingly close to finishing this fight.For the past 100 years, our citizens have been trying to pass an Equal Rights Amendment that would do just that. While steps have been taken to forbid discrimination at federal and state levels, the ERA has been stopped for reasons that are