Today marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle that took decades of agitation and protest.

The fight to vote goes back to the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848.

While women won the right to vote in 1920, women are not equal in the eyes of the law.

Nearly 50 years after it was first introduced by suffragist Alice Paul, the federal Equal Rights Amendment still has not become part of our Constitution.

In 1972, the ERA passed the House and Senate with the required two-thirds majority.

The amendment was then sent to each state to ratify, but only 35 of the 38 states needed had ratified it by the time the congressionally imposed deadline of 1982 expired. It was ratified by Nevada in 2017, Illinois in 2018 and Virginia earlier this year, becoming the 38th and final state required.

In February, the U.S. House voted to remove the ratification deadline in an attempt to revive the amendment.

Now, the U.S. Senate needs to do the same, by passing SJR 6.

Monday marked the start of the Democratic National Convention — and for the first time in history, it’s being held virtually.

Today, a powerhouse lineup — including feminist leaders like Dolores Huerta, Eleanor Smeal and Gloria Steinem — will convene virtually to discuss what it will take to push the ERA over the finish line and finally enshrine equality into the Constitution.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she believes the effort to revive the ERA can attract bipartisan support in the Senate, regardless of whether Senate leader Mitch McConnell agrees to bring it to the floor.

McConnell has said he personally opposes the ERA legislation — so for now, the ERA bill joins the 400 others sitting in the Senate’s legislative graveyard.

According to an American Bar Association survey, a record-high majority of Americans — 83 percent — believes the ERA should be ratified and incorporated into the Constitution,

In 1975, a Gallup Poll during the prime of the movement showed only 58 percent of respondents favoring the addition of an ERA.

The ERA would end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment and other matters, including equal pay.

The time is now for its approval.

— JGG