<P> On February 24, 2013, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed a resolution asking that the congressionally imposed deadline for ERA ratification be removed . The resolution was officially received by the U.S. House of Representatives on April 25, 2013, and was referred to the House's Committee on the Judiciary, as noted in the Congressional Record . </P> <P> Twenty - four states have adopted constitutions or constitutional amendments providing that equal rights under the law shall not be denied because of sex . Most of these provisions mirror the broad language of the ERA, while the wording in others resembles the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . Of course, the state actions do not change the federal draft laws that proved one of the stumbling blocks to passage of the national ERA . The 1879 Constitution of California contains the earliest state equal rights provision on record . Narrowly written, it limits the equal rights conferred to "entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment". Near the end of the 19th century two more states, Wyoming (1890) and Utah (1896), included equal rights provisions in their constitutions . These provisions were broadly written to ensure political and civil equality between women and men . Several states crafted and adopted their own equal rights amendments during the 1970s and 1980s, while the ERA was before the states, or afterward . </P> <P> Some state Equal Rights Amendments and original constitutional equal rights provisions are: </P> <P> Alaska--No person is to be denied the enjoyment of any civil or political right because of race, color, creed, sex or national origin . The legislature shall implement this section . Alaska Constitution, Article I, § 3 (1972) </P>

What was the result of the attempt to pass the equal rights amendment