On Int'l Women's Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

On Int'l Women's Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – When the founding fathers proclaimed that “all men are created equal,” it was preceded by “we hold these truths to be self-evident.”  If they were truths and also self-evident, why were the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence from the moneyed class only (physicians, lawyers, merchants, plantations owners and land speculators), many of whom were slave-holders.  Deepening the deceptio…