Giving Compass' Take:

• Rosemary Westwood at Pacific Standard writes on the comparisons of the original defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in the late 1970s and the fight to ratify it again now. 

• What can donors and policymakers do to work together in support of the Equal Rights Amendment?

• Learn about closing the gender wage gap in America. 

The amendment is brief—a mere 52 words—and its core sentiment appears utterly innocuous: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." But the Equal Rights Amendment has been anything but anodyne since its original defeat in the late 1970s. Today's reignited movement has much in common with the earlier fight—including the vehement and powerful opposition of the religious right.

Amid the Women's March and #MeToo movements, the presidency of Donald Trump and the wave of women elected to public office, the ERA has become a renewed rallying cry for 21st century feminism. Celebrities such as Alyssa Milano and America Ferrera, the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Democratic politicians across the country, and a plethora of pro-ERA groups at the state and federal levels have taken up the cause, with special enthusiasm from media brands serving Millennial women (Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, and Refinery29).

Read the full article on the equal rights amendment by Rosemary Westwood at Pacific Standard.