President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land," backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution more than a century after the guarantee of gender equality was first proposed.

Speaking to the Conference of Mayors Friday, President Joe Biden said the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S.