RICHMOND — The Virginia Senate voted Tuesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a step 40 years in the making to recognize women as equal citizens.
Congress passed the constitutional amendment in 1972, but the requisite 38 states never approved it. Originally, 35 states voted to ratify the amendment, though some have since withdrawn their support.
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