The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment designed to guarantee equal rights to the citizens of the U.S. Someone’s sex or gender should not be a way of determining a person’s legal rights. So why is the ERA not a part of the constitution? Progress takes time, and these kinds of movements don’t happen overnight, but it’s been about a century since the ERA was first proposed. Linda Coberly, a lawyer and the chair of the ERA Coalition’s Legal Task Force, tells  TIME “I think there’s been a more widespread understanding among both women and men that we have not truly established equality in our culture, and the laws that we have enacted are not sufficient to protect against sex discrimination in all avenues.” (pg. 7). The ERA is significant in order to prevent a setback in women’s rights, and I think it’s crucial to support it. The part of the article that focuses on Phyllis Schlafly really frustrated me, there will always be naysayers, but Schlafly specifically is a hypocrite. As a mother of six who dedicated a big part of her life to her career, one that involved a lot of traveling, she was against the ERA because she feared women would no longer be allowed to be stay-at-home mothers. She successfully had her audience think twice about supporting the ERA and question what the equality of the sexes would mean for everyone. Some of the things she used to convince her audience not to support the ERA are things that happened even without passing the amendment.