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The House of Representatives passed it in October 1971, and the Senatefollowed suitin March 1972.
The amendmentfailed to passin the required 38 states by its 1982 deadline.
Americablurs the line between fact and fiction.
(Note:Due toMrs.
Americasdepiction of historical events, this article includes spoilers.)
Phyllis Schlafly (Played by Cate Blanchett)
The villain ofMrs.
America, Cate Blanchetts Phyllis Schlafly epitomizes the worst kind of female ambition.
Blanchett, an executive producer onMrs.
The meeting is ostensibly to discuss the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a.k.a.
Gloria Steinem (Played by Rose Byrne)
Arguably the worlds most famous feminist, Steinem isMrs.
Americas glamorous, career-girl answer to Schlaflys traditionalist housewife.
A seasoned journalist and activist, Steinem co-founded theall-women-runMs.magazineand the National Womens Political Caucus in 1971.
As portrayed by Rose Byrne, its easy to see why.
And you will do what you want to do with your life.
Because, as highlighted inMrs.
But the real conflict covered in Shirley is the treatment Chisholm received at the hands of the womens movement.
Steinem, however, stillvociferously defendsher dubious support of Chisholms 1972 presidential run.
By the 1970s ofMrs.
Hernot-fictional rivalrywith Steinem, who is as tactful as Friedan is blustery, also doesnt help matters.
This debate didtake place, in 1973, and the onscreen contentiousness didnt need any writers-room embellishment.
Although Friedan went against the party line by participating in the debate,Mrs.
Americas avatar for the Republicans helpless to stop their partys shift toward a religious-based, far-right ideology.
Ruckelshaus, a pro-choice moderate Republican, was aWhite House special assistanton womens rights under the Nixon administration.
America,Abzug is presented as the ERAs political mama bear.
But she also serves to illustrate how increasingly fragmented the womens movement became throughout the 1970s.
This lack of unity may have very well contributed to the ERAs eventual defeat.
