and drove phyllis schlafly enough. to picket outside the white house. >> she was in the streets, in your home, on your television. she was at your local rotary club. she organized opposition. >> i thought what i might do is to run through the arguments that we present against the equal rights amendment. >> she had her offices over the garage right outside her home. and often worked from the living room. she could literally organize on that phone in the kitchen. two phones cooked in and serve the kids. and do three, four things at a time. >> women always work. if you have a baby you are working. women work. this is something my mother said many, many times. part of her point was not to denigrate the work that is done in the home. is to say that it is work of value. >> a lot of us very happy having a partner who is willing to go to the office every day and bring home the bread so that we can decide what to do with it. >> schlafly's main argument against the e.r.a. was that got had created men and women differently on pur

i also recommend equal google equal rights amendment and schlafly and read what phyllis said about this ago p or the 14th amendment actually does include women, and this was ruled by the u.s. supreme court in 518 u.s. 15 in 1996. the bill does include women already. i have read from way back then, and i am old enough to remember when the e.r.a. tried to be past many years ago, i was in college. towas all about trying overturn all of these restrictions on abortion. that is what it was about. thank you for your call. you have spoken about the abortion issue. answer some of her other concerns. guest: sure. i want to say the equal rights amendment is a bipartisan effort. it is a family issue for many women who are trying to support their families on unequal pay. we were just in north carolina. , working with advocate there, trying to pass their bill, and their research indicates that if we were to put women on equal par with men in their state in terms of earnings, it would add $15.3 billion to the gdp, and it would cut poverty in half. people are asking me, because i am doing a lot of trav