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So NOW supported women in the draft and actively fought for it legislatively and what? Their motives weren't pure enough? Who cares? It's a women's organization

• mpweiher 9y ago
  No, they actively fought the draft for women until it became politically necessary/expedient to change their position. And of course opposition to the draft for women was the primary reason for the defeat of the ERA. "Experts agree that Phyllis Schlafly was a key player in the defeat. Political scientist Jane Mansbridge in her history of the ERA argues that the draft issue was the single most powerful argument used by Schlafly and the other opponents to defeat ERA.[93] She concludes, "Many people who followed the struggle over the ERA believed—rightly in my view—that the Amendment would have been ratified by 1975 or 1976 had it not been for Phyllis Schlafly's early and effective effort to organize potential opponents."[94] Legal scholar Joan C. Williams argues, "ERA was defeated when Schlafly turned it into a war among women over gender roles." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment#Opposition_to_the_ERA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment#Opposit... Oh, and >90% of workplace fatalities are men.