Eventually, this resulted in feminist dissatisfaction with the Republican Party, giving the Democrats a new source of strength that when combined with overwhelming minority support, helped elect Bill Clinton to the presidency in 1992 and again in 1996.Critics of Schlafly viewed her advocacy against equal rights and her role as a working professional as a contradiction.

She also debated feminists who supported the amendment.

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She also contended that the ERA would repeal legal protections, such as alimony, and eliminate the judicial tendency for divorced mothers to receive custody of their children.In March 2007, Schlafly spoke against the concept of In an interview on March 30, 2006, she attributed improvement in women's lives during the last decades of the 20th century to labor-saving devices such as the indoor clothes dryer and disposable diapers.In 2007, while working to defeat a new version of the Equal Rights Amendment, Schlafly warned it would force courts to approve Prior to the 1994 Congressional elections, Schlafly condemned Schlafly was an outspoken critic of what she termed "On February 3, 2012, Schlafly announced that she would be voting for Schlafly believed the Republican Party should reject On May 1, 2008, the trustees of Washington University, St. Louis, announced that Schlafly would receive an honorary degree at the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2008.

in political science from Washington University, an MA in political science from Harvard University, and a law degree from Washington University Law School.

In 1964 she wrote A Choice Not An Echo, to promote … Relationships.

She was a leading conservative voice in the late 20th century and a lightning rod … The Equal Rights Amendment was narrowly defeated, having only achieved ratification in a total 35 states.Many people who followed the struggle over the ERA believed—rightly in my view—that the Amendment would have been ratified by 1975 or 1976 had it not been for Phyllis Schlafly's early and effective effort to organize potential opponents.

Schlafly celebrated her win with a party at a hotel in Washington, D.C., and Phyllis Schlafly leads members opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment in a song about the pro-ERA force's plan for a national demonstration.

Phyllis Schlafly was a Roman Catholic political activist who spent half a century being a thorn in the side of American feminists. After graduate school, she worked for the American Enterprise Association, the conservative think tank that would become the American Enterprise Institute.

• Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade Princeton University Press, 2005.

From overcoming oppression, to breaking rules, to reimagining the world or waging a rebellion, these women of history have a story to tell. Her book, A Choice Not an Echo (1964), a polemic against Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller, sold more than three million copies.

Joan Williams argues, "ERA was defeated when Schlafly turned it into a war among women over gender roles.

Schlafly died of cancer on September 5, 2016, at her home in Ladue, Missouri, at the age of 92. The strength of this gathering was Congress passed a bill extending the deadline for ratification from March 22, 1979, to June 30, 1982, but the ERA still fell short of the required state ratifications by the second deadline.

'Phyllis Schlafly kept the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified and bolstered the power of the conservative movement in the United States.© 2020 Biography and the Biography logo are registered trademarks of A&E Television Networks, LLC.

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Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Phyllis Stewart grew up in a middle-class Roman Catholic family in St. Louis, Missouri.

His grandfather, August, immigrated in 1854 from Switzerland. Phyllis Schlaflycolumnist, activist Schlafly earned a B.A.

Spearheading the Stop ERA campaign and working on other conservative causes often required Schlafly to travel away from home.

Taught each of her six children to read at home keeping them home from school, until the second grade.

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