The excerpt from the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Which statement explains why some women's rights activists opposed passage of the ERA? A. They worried about a backlash against women if feminists gained power too quickly. B. They believed that women already enjoyed more power than men in many areas of life. C. They were worried that ratification of the ERA would erase legal benefits women had gained during the 1960s. D. They did not think the ERA was strong enough
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C. Some women's rights activists opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because they were worried that ratification of the ERA would erase legal benefits women had gained during the 1960s.
- They feared that the amendment would invalidate gender-specific benefits such as maternity leave and social security benefits that favored women, as it would require the law to be gender-neutral. This perspective was concerned with the possibility that the ERA could dismantle laws and judicial decisions that had provided certain protections specifically for women.