How important was Phyllis Schlafly’s role in the defeat of the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment?

In this essay, the author

• Analyzes phyllis schlafly's role in the defeat of the u.s. equal rights amendment.
• Explains that the equal rights amendment was drafted by alice paul and the national organization for women. the opposition against the era was headed by phyllis schlafly.
• Analyzes how proponents of the equal rights amendment defaced buildings, harassed and bribed legislators, and used peaceful, feminine tactics to their advantage.

• Analyzes phyllis schlafly's role in the defeat of the u.s. equal rights amendment.
• Explains that the equal rights amendment was drafted by alice paul and the national organization for women. the opposition against the era was headed by phyllis schlafly.
• Analyzes how proponents of the equal rights amendment defaced buildings, harassed and bribed legislators, and used peaceful, feminine tactics to their advantage.
• Explains that the equal rights amendment would prohibit discrimination against women in the workplace and work toward better protection toward both men and women.
• Analyzes how schlafly and her stop era and eagle forum groups campaigned vehemently against the equal rights amendment.
• Analyzes how phyllis schlafly's anti-era propaganda letter, "stop era," was written in 1978, and it was found online from smithsonian source.
• Explains that the article "the equal rights amendment: a constitutional basis for equal rights of women" was written in the yale law journal in 1971.
• Opines that phyllis schlafly's contributions to the opposition of the equal rights amendment were important; the race to ratification would have been much closer had it not been for her involvement.
• Analyzes how schlafly's anti-era campaign was comparatively mild, with no arguments for women to protest the era.
• Analyzes how schlafly and other era opponents argued that the equal rights amendment would be detrimental toward the current rights held by women.
• Analyzes how the equal rights amendment's supposed negative impact toward family life was used to turn americans against the amendment.
• Analyzes how phyllis schlafly, either directly through her campaigning or indirectly through one of her organizations, is highly influential in almost every aspect of opposition against the equal rights amendment.
• Cites brown, barbara a., thomas i. emerson, gail falk, and ann e. freedman. the equal rights amendment is a constitutional basis for equal rights for women.
• Explains gladstone, leslie w., “the long road to equality: what women won from the era ratification effort.” the library of congress: american memory.
• Analyzes gorey, hays, jane o’reilly, and anastasia toufexis' article, "what killed equal rights."
• Analyzes schlafly, phyllis, and scott, wilbur j. the equal rights amendment as status politics.