Supporters of the ERA are celebrating as Virginia becomes the 38th state to ratify the amendment. News4’s Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports from Richmond.

Supporters of the ERA are celebrating as Virginia becomes the 38th state to ratify the amendment. News4’s Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports from Richmond.

The Equal Rights Amendment is continuing to advance in the Virginia Legislature, where its passage is all but certain.

The Justice Department has issued a finding that an expired pair of deadlines imposed by Congress decades ago means it’s too late for more states to ratify it now.

Virginia’s governor is calling this the most consequential legislative session in a generation. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment have filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts aimed at clearing a legal path for adoption of the long-delayed constitutional amendment. Backers say they’re wading into the debate over the amendment — which dates to the early 1970s — because Virginia is poised to become the decisive 38th state to approve the measure. But the…

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate. But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the state, the ERA’s prospects nationally are substantially more...

A new memorial in Lorton will honor the work of women suffragists 100 years after women’s right to vote was ratified. The memorial is not far from the Occoquan Workhouse, a building where sufragettes were imprisoned and in some cases beaten for protesting for the right to vote.

A new memorial will honor the work female suffragists did to fight for the right to vote. The site is close to the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were jailed and in some cases beaten for protesting in favor of suffrage.

Democrats from Virginia’s House of Delegates have nominated Eileen Filler-Corn to be the first female Speaker of the House in state history.

Democrats have flipped enough seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and the state Senate to win control of both chambers. News4’s Julie Carey reports from Richmond.