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Iron Jawed Angels is a true story based on the life of radical suffragists who played a key role in winning the federal constitutional amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote.

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In a country which had just gone through this wrenching crisis, the vote in the congress in favor of this constitutional amendment was 124 to one.

Specifically, this little amendment right here: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."

Originally proposed in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment would guarantee gender equality under the law, and much like Title IX on campus, that constitutional amendment could require states to intervene and address gender violence as a prohibitive form of sex discrimination.

And within the last year, at least one of those states has ratified the amendment, because we live in different political times.

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