While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
Carolyn MaloneyIn my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of balancing work and family. And as more women have gone into the work force because they have to, and when you discriminate against a woman's pay you discriminate against her children or her husband or her significant other in terms of what the family income is.
Carolyn MaloneyBecause it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.
Carolyn MaloneyI think in a society where you can't even pass the Equal Rights Amendment, it's very difficult to women make a progress. Incidentally, we are exactly 160 years after the very first women's public rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, when a handful of women started it all and began the movement to make women equal.
Carolyn Maloney