Twenty-one state constitutions embrace Equal-Rights Amendment-like equal rights provisions. And it looks like Oregon will be a test case for state adoption of an equal rights amendment this fall. Late last year, the group VoteERA.org won approval to start gathering signatures to place an Oregon ERA proposal on the November ballot.

“Shouldn’t women be explicitly equal in every Constitution?” Leanne Littrell DiLorenzo, the president of VoteERA.org, told reporters. “To me, the answer is an absolute ‘Yes, of course.’” The Nation Magazine calls the continued struggle for a national ERA a historic “vista” for 2014, starting with Oregon, this year.

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