Can Meryl Streep change the US Constitution to ban discrimination against women?

It has been a busy week in the battle for equality, as Meryl Streep channels Emmeline Pankhurst, the Wolf of Wall Street is set to get the all-female Ghostbusters treatment and feminist adverts have been given their just rewards

It appears Meryl Streep has gone full method for her latest role as Emmeline Pankhurst in upcoming movie Suffragette this week, deciding to write a letter to every single member of Congress – that’s 535 letters – imploring them to revive the Equal Rights Amendement (ERA), which would prohibit discrimination against women and girls under the law.

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I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality – for your mother, your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself – by actively supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.”

The time is ripe to ratify the equal rights amendment. Seventy percent of people polled think that we already have an ERA in the constitution and they’re shocked to find we don’t have one.’

I would like to see the Glass Lion not need to exist in a few years’ time. I would like in a few years’ time for every Cannes-winning award to be doing what the Glass Lion is designed to celebrate.”

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