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​Phyllis Schlafly Margaret “YOU CAN’T FOOL MOTHER NATURE!!!” -Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Schlafly was bright and well-educated woman raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Schlafly was born on August 15, 1924. She received top honors in high school, however during the depression Schlafly's father Bruce lost his job and the family was forced to "get by" on what her mother Odile was able to earn in the workplace. Schlafly received a full scholarship to her local college, but soon thought that it was not challenging enough for her so she transferred to Washington University. She then got her master degree in government and got a job at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1961 Schlafly decided to run for Congress, for the representative of the Twenty Fourth District of Illinois, sadly she lost the election. She went on to marry Fred Schlafly and have six children, three of which were girls. // STOP E.R.A. //  movement in the fall of 1972, which stands for Stop Taking Our Privileges . She opposed the feminist movement and most directly the Equal Rights Amendment. The E.R.A. (was a proposed amendment that was created in the 1920s but never passed. where equal rights were guaranteed under any federal, state or local law regardless of their sex. There are many reasons for why Schlafly __opposed feminism__; she thought it would take away the privileges of the “dependent wife”. She thought that women would lose Social Security benefit, require a draft of 18 year old girls, cause a rise in divorce rates, require federal funds for the payment of abortion, there would be no more sex-segregated bathrooms and many more reasons. Schlafly thought that women were already blessed simply because they were able to live in a country where…free enterprises was constantly improving life for the weaker sex (females).She does not believe it was essential for the E.R.A. to be ratified because she thought the marketplace was already going to take care of women's equality without the government's interference.

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