FILE - In this May 16, 1976, file photo, an estimated 10,000 marchers descend on the Capitol building in Springfield, Ill., to demonstrate for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Many opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment considered it dead when a 10-year ratification push failed in 1982, yet its backers on Capitol Hill, in the Illinois statehouse and elsewhere are making clear this summer 2014 that the fight is far from over. (AP Photo/File)