Caplan Communications worked with national and state partners to advance Equal Rights Amendment ratification in the final stretch of a decades-long campaign, at a moment when the effort had stalled despite broad public support.
A legislative bottleneck in Virginia prevented a vote for years, leaving the amendment politically stalled and the constitutional gap unresolved.
Caplan led a coordinated, multi-state communications strategy aligning legal, advocacy, and media pressure. When the 2019 elections shifted control of the Virginia legislature, we rapidly aligned communications to the compressed decision window.
The ERA turned from a dormant historical effort into actionable constitutional business, no longer symbolic but requiring immediate resolution.
Virginia ratified the ERA as the 38th state, breaking a decades-long impasse and marking a historic milestone in the fight for constitutional gender equality.
