amy: that is phyllis schlafly. the conservative activist. but that is what someone is going to have to say if they're going to say no to it today. talk about why you feel it is critical today and even talk about your own story. you were a famous newscaster him you are a journalist. .he lack of pay equity >> precisely. when people say to us, why would you need the equal rights amendment? i say, look at our country. look at the poor people in our country. it is the women. families h headed by women who cannot feed their children, cannnnot find homes. they are impoverished. corporations m make billions and billions of dollars by paying women less than they payment. it is a good business strategy, but a very poor strategy for equality in this country. so we cannot go on diminishing the rights of women in the united states. how many years have we done this? pay equity day. it is so infuriating. it does not change. amy: explain the equity day. >> it is the amount -- the data in which the next year a woman or woman of color, a black woman, latina w