California lawmakers are leading the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. They’re demanding women be represented in the United States Constitution.

It seems the time is ripe now because of the record-breaking number of women in Congress, and the effort even has star power behind it.

Celebrities lending their profiles to political causes is nothing new, but Alyssa Milano, from Charmed, and Academy Award winner, Patricia Arquette, are head-strong in their fight for women’s rights.

“The only guarantee we have,” Milano said, "is the 14th amendment, which is the right to vote.”

Milano stands next to Representative Jackie Speier of California’s 14th district, who represents parts of San Francisco, and who is sponsoring the resolution.

“There is discrimination that goes on everywhere,” said Speier, D-14.

They’re working to pass a resolution in Congress which would extend the 1982 deadline for the ERA ratification.

“If 80 percent doesn’t know we don’t have protections in the Constitution,” Milano said, "I feel like using my platform to ensure people are aware that we are not protected is important.”

Representative Speier hopes California can be a model for the nation.

“24 states have passed an ERA in their states, California being one of the first,” said Speier, D-14. “What CA needs to do is show that when you pass the ERA, what happens is, women are treated equally to men, that is not the case around the country.”

The renewed interest also comes from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement.

“It’s time. I think the momentum is with us.” said Speier, D-14. “We’re very close.”

The effort, started nearly a century ago, is now bipartisan.

“I feel great,” Milano said. “I feel like we’re going to get it done; hopeful.”

There are 37 states that have approved the ERA which is just one shy of the 38 needed to add the amendment to the Constitution. Lawmakers are looking at Virginia, Arizona, and Georgia to be that last state. Illinois ratified the ERA last year.