The Equal Rights Amendment and the Persistence of Kansas Conservatism

Article tracing Kansans' responses to national gender equality reform movements. Specifically, the article focuses on the Kansas women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century, as well as the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) of the 1970s. The author argues the founders of Kansas "craved moral differentiation" from the eastern states, a tradition which continued into the late 20th century.