ERA will provide citizens of all 50 states with a constitutional guarantee of Legal Quality.

ERA will guarantee fair treatment in the marketplace for the millions of women who must work.

ERA will enhance the role of the wife by providing the retention of legal rights after marriage.

ERA will eliminate payment of inheritance tax by widows on jointly owned property and equalize benefits in social security and pensions.

ERA will create equal educational opportunities for boys and girls in publicly supported schools.

ERA will ensure that the "Good of the Child" be the primary criterion for awarding custody. (Alimony will continue to be awarded on the basis of the need.)

ERA will extend to men truly beneficial "protective labor laws" and will prohibit restrictive and discriminatory hiring practices for men and women.

ERA will strengthen the family unit by ensuring that the marriage may be a true partnership.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a symbol of our national committment to the pricniples of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happinessl; We are fortunate, our nation's 200th birthday, to have the means by which we may fufill America's promise of justice and freedom by providing a Constitutional guarantee of equality.

WORDING OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provision of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

ERA will not destroy the family.

ERA will not deny the right to privacy

ERA will not dictate homosexual marriage laws

ERA will not affect the Supreme Court ruling on abortion.

ERA will not require women to earn a salary.

ERA will not interfere with a state's right to legislate.

Thirty-four of the needed thirty-eight states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Florida must become one of the four states needed for ratification.

Your help is needed in the Ratification effort. You cna contact one of the NOW chapters listed on the back or a local affiliate of one of the supporting organizations.

The fall elections are important. There are PRO ERA candidates in all of the remaining state Senate races. (in 1975 the Florida Senate defeated the ERA by a 21-18 vote. As of September, 1976, the vote apepars to be 18 YES, 16 NO, with six Senate races to be decided. The Florida House of Represenatives ratified the ERA in 1975, but there is still the need to maintain that status.)

RATIFICATION IS WITHIN OUR GRASP

To help, YOU CAN:

Vote for PRO ERA candidates

Work in the campaigns of PRO ERA candidates

Contribute money to Pro Era candidates

Write, Call, or Visit your legislators, urging them to vote YES on ERA

Tell your friends, relatives, and neighbors about the importance of ERA

Join your local NOW chapter or ERA coaltion to work together for ERA.

DO IT TODAY!

FLORIDA SUPPORTERS OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

AFL-CIO

American Civil Liberties Union

American Association of University Women

Church Women United

Classroom Teachers Association

Common cause

Communication Workers of america

Democratic National Committee

Florida Association of Women Lawyers

Florida Council of Churches

Florida Bar Association

Florida Women's Poltical Caucus

International Brotherhood of Printers and Allied Trades

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

International Union of Electrical, Rado, and Machine Workers

League of American Working Women

League of Women Voters

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Coalition of American Nuns

National Council of Jewish Women

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

National Secretaries Association

Republican Nataional Committee

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Florida Synod

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Y.W.C.A.

Gov. Ruben Askey

Mrs. Donna Lu Askew

Attorney General Robert Shevin

AND MANY OTHER FLORIDIANS......

HOW ABOUT YOU?

To help ratify the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT,

contact a NOW chapter in one of these targeted areas.

BROWARD COUNTY NOW

Carol Blum 3218 Van Buren St.

Hollywood, Fl. 33021

305-981-6651

CHARLOTTE COUNTY NOW

Connie Harbeson

528 Carmelita St.

Punta Gorde, Fl. 33950

813-639-0109

PINELLAS COUNTY NOW

Sheila Knaust

Rt. 3 Box 657E

Palm Harbor, Fl. 33563

813-784-5914

SARASOTA COUNTY NOW

Pay McVoy

3213 Bay Drive

Bradenton, Fl. 33507

813-756-8860

Tampa Now

Lee DeCesar

407 South Lois Ave.

Tampa, Fl. 33609

813-879-3851

Or for your local NOW chapter, contact:

Val Adams

Florida NOW State Coordinator

15 S. Ridgeview Rd.

Jensen Beach, Fl. 33457

305-283-6989

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN