By Lisa Goudy
Meryl Streep wrote letters this week and that's been making headlines.
She sent a letter to each member of Congress, saying "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."
She added that, "A whole new generation of women and girls are talking about equality - equal pay, equal protection from sexual
assault, equal rights."
Streep included a copy of the book Equal Means
Equal by Jessica Neuwirth, president of the ERA Coalition. That
coalition campaigns
to update the U.S. Constitution to include an amendment to
prohibit discrimination against women and girls under the law.
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