The constitutional amendment was initially put forth by Alice Paul, an economist and organizer who helped to found the National Woman's Party and who marched for the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920. Paul worked with another prominent suffragist, Crystal
"Alice Paul actually drafted the original Equal Rights Amendment and its updated text later in the '40s," Jennifer Krafchik, acting executive director of the Belmont-Paul National Monument, told NPR in 2016. "So she spent her entire life, really, working for women's rights, women's equality. She wor