The purpose of the ERA is to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. In the early history of the Equal Rights Amendment, middle-class women were largely supportive, while those speaking for the working class were often opposed, arguing that women should hold more domestic responsibility than men and that employed women needed special protections regarding working conditions and employment hours. Proponents asserted it would end legal distinctions between men and women in matters including divorce, property, and employment. Opponents have argued that it would remove protections from women and open women to be drafted into the military.
The 14th Amendment, providing an equal protection clause to all U.S. citizens, was not originally intended to apply to women, as it predates the 19th Amendment. As proof of this, Susan B. Anthony voted in the 1872 presidential election, was arrested two weeks later, and was convicted the following year for illegal voting. At her trial, she attempted to use the 14th Amendment to defend her actions, but the judge ruled that the amendment did not apply to her because she was a woman.
The Equal Rights Amendment would prevent a rollback of the legal advances women have gained. It is important to remember that as governments change from conservative to liberal, citizens, neither male nor female, should not be subject to lose their right to vote, their right to free speech, or any other of their constitutional rights due to a change of political opinion.
The ERA does not add new laws to the U.S. Constitution, it only guarantees the rights currently within it. Issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, unisex bathrooms, and the female draft exist separately from the ERA and would not become law upon the ERA’s passage.
The ERA is an amendment for both men and women – it is not just a woman’s issue. Issues of custody, employment, and fair wages are important to both sexes and an Equal Rights Amendment would guarantee equal legal rights without regard to sex.
The ERA would affirm the purpose that began with the writing of the U.S. Constitution, the basic human right of constitutional protection.
The Above is from the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice website ..and is given here only to explain what the ERA AMendment says in regard to Woemen rights....to correct in legal ineaquilty which has existed since 1920-105 years 
In regard that hystircal argument if the ERA was passed women would be drafted into the Miltiary....Women are voluntary enlisting in the Military witout being drafted
Also to the Hystrical argument that the ERA is Proaboration ...in fact the US Supreme Court ruled that it is up to each state..not the Federal Goverment to decided to be either anti-aboration or proaboration...the ERA has nothing to do with aboration but The ERA does not add new laws to the U.S. Constitution, it only guarantees the rights currently within it. see In its 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a federal right to abortion. This decision effectively returned the regulation of abortion to individual states, meaning each state now has the power to determine its own abortion policies.
As for the erosion of Gender roles.... Obuma became the foremost advocate of homosexualty not just in the United States but the entire world; Biden became the foremost advocate of abortion not just in the United States but the entire world....[Christain science monitor]
The Christian Science Monitor did report on President Obama's administration's efforts to promote LGBT rights and human rights globally, including advocating for the decriminalization of homosexuality in foreign countries. Diplomats were instructed to raise the issue with foreign governments and to advocate for the protection of LGBT individuals.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that President Biden has directed U.S. diplomats to pressure countries to adopt policies on abortion similar to those in the United States. This order comes as the Biden administration seeks to expand access to abortion services both domestically and internationall
LAstly the US COnsitution writes of trial by Jury....yet one of the most abused portions was the riegn of Judge Lynch Law,,,of Lynching without trial against persons accused of crimes...{According to the NAACP records] the worst years of "Lynch Law " was 1890) in 1909 a Afrian American Congressman proposed a Federal Anti Lynching Law....which was passed 115 years later in 2024...delibertly keeping female citizens legally inferior by denying them full equal rights civil Rights...is the last gasp "triumph" of a mean stupid.selfish .inferior mindset..as long as the inequality remains...equal civil rights for all us Citizens....will always be in jeopardy...who want to turn the United states back to 1900 
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