Lucretia Mott was born in 1793 and much of her long life was devoted to working for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women.  Her life and work, is among those, which have shaped the world in which we live. The significance of her contribution was recognised in when in 1923, when Alice Paul first introduced the equal rights amendment to the US Congress calling it ‘the Lucretia Mott amendment’.  The amendment, which has still not been adopted into the U.S. Constitution, states in its first draft article: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state…