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Large businesses have come out in support of the ERA—including some with sexist histories

Large businesses have come out in support of the ERA—including some with sexist histories

It might have taken 100 years, but American corporations are finally taking a stand in support of full gender equality—for business reasons, no less. In an amicus brief filed this week, 93 businesses—Apple, Google, and Microsoft among them—backed the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which guarantees constitutional equal rights for women. About a century after it was presented in Congress, and nearly four decades after its approval, the ERA is still stuck in legal limbo.