The National Organization for Women (N.O.W), is not the only organization that has been working on this project for many years. Women all around the world are experiencing injustice and oppression based on sex. Women were deliberately left out of the U.S. Constitution as they were not recognized as full citizens in 1787. Even today, centuries after it was enacted, the Constitution does not fully prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. Sex is not held to the same strict standard as race and religion in the eyes of the law, making it harder for women in court to prove complaints of bias or unequal treatment. That is why the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) must be added to the Constitution. N.O.W is a proud supporter of the ERA. And after a century of advocacy women are now closer than ever to having the ERA enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The progress we are making toward women’s equality can be lost at any time because those advances depend on legislation that can be (and has been) weakened or repealed by Congress, but the ERA can stop that from happening. We can be changed. We can be equal.