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WOMAN Corp, The First and Only ‘Woman’ In America With Rights The Government Will Protect

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The ERA Coalition is taking a bold new approach in the fight for women’s rights by ensuring that at least ONE woman will have constitutional rights moving forward. Ahead of this year’s midterm elections where the future of women’s rights will be on the ballot, the ERA Coalition announces the launch of the fully incorporated WOMAN Corp, the first and only ‘woman’ in America with rights the government will fight to protect.

WOMAN Corp was founded to raise awareness about the disturbing fact that the American government protects, and continues to expand, the rights of corporations while the rights of women are stripped away.

85% of people in the United States believe that women are guaranteed equal rights to men under the Constitution. Unfortunately, that is not true as the ERA amendment was never published to the Constitution.

“Currently corporations have more rights than women,” said ERA Coalition President and CEO Zakiya Thomas. “The goal of this satirical campaign is to highlight how ridiculous it is that our government will bend over backwards to give corporations what they need. And have even gone so far as to deem them as “natural persons” and continue to give them more and more protections while taking away women's rights. The Supreme Court has expanded rights for corporations while taking away fundamental rights for women and people who can become pregnant."

WOMAN Corp is supported by a Board of Directors including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, renowned trial lawyer Benjamin Crump, actress Gabriella Pizzolo, award-winning author Ilyasah Shabazz, lawyer and Virginia State Senate candidate Jennifer Carroll Foy, Ogilvy’s Global CEO Devika Bulchandani, Kimberly Peeler-Allen of the Center for American Women and Politics, Mona Sinha of Equality Now.

People are invited to join the staff of WOMAN Corp on LinkedIn by adding it to their work experience.

To debut WOMAN Corp, the ERA has enlisted Gabriella (Gabby) Pizzolo – best known for her role in the blockbuster series ‘Stranger Things’ on Netflix – to launch this ceiling-shattering new company. She will also introduce the founding of WOMAN Corp through a satirical video that will be running across various digital and social platforms.

Pizzolo opens the film saying: “As a newly legal adult woman in America, I got to say, it’s not awesome here. You see, I was under the silly impression that as a woman, I had the same rights as men. But it turns out that for the last 100 years, women have been trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment recognized so we can be protected equally under the constitution, but our government is always like ‘lol, no thanks.’ But you know what our government does protect – corporations. The government loves protecting corporations. Which got me thinking… if that's true then I could, hypothetically, create a corporation, name it WOMAN, and the government would care more about protecting WOMAN the corporation than this woman sitting right here.”

Pizzolo concludes with a call to action for people to call their Senator. “Not interested in creating an entire corporation just to get basic human rights? Then help us get the Equal Rights Amendment recognized in the Constitution,” said Pizzolo.

Despite 100 years of marching and protesting, and 50 years since the initial passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the amendment has not been published. Through WOMAN Corp, the ERA Coalition hopes to empower Americans to continue to fight this prodigious inequality and mobilize congress to pass legislation to affirm the Equal Rights Amendment is part of the Constitution.

WOMAN Corp was developed by creative agency Ogilvy with additional support from WPP agencies BCW and GroupM.

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