when was the equal rights amendment passed by congress
Equal Rights Amendment Griffiths reintroduced the ERA, and achieved success on Capitol Hill with her House Joint Resolution No. 208, which was adopted by the House on October 12, 1971, with a vote of 354 yeas (For), 24 nays (Against) and 51 not voting.[37] Griffiths' joint resolution was then adopted by the Senate—without change—on March 22, 1972, by a vote of 84 yeas, 8 nays and 7 not voting.[38] The Senate version, drafted by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana,[39] passed after the defeat of an amendment proposed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina that would have exempted women from the draft.[27] President Richard Nixon immediately endorsed the ERA's approval upon its passage by the 92nd Congress.[27]