How has the ERA been related to single-sex institutions?
Even without an ERA in the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions in recent decades have increasingly limited the constitutionality of public single-sex institutions. In 1972, the Court found in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan that Mississippis policy of refusing to admit males to its all-female School of Nursing was unconstitutional. Justice Sandra Day OConnor wrote in the majority decision that a gender-based classification may be justified as compensatory only if members of the benefited sex have actually suffered a disadvantage related to it. In the Courts 1996 United States v. Commonwealth of Virginia decision, which prohibited the use of public funds for then all-male Virginia Military Institute unless it admitted women, the majority opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated that sex-based classifications may be used to compensate the disadvantaged class for particular economic disabilities [they have] suffered, to promote equal employment opportunity, and to
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