What would be accomplished if the Equal Rights Amendment was ratified?

It'd provide a legal basis on which to pursue constitutional cases on matters of gender discrimination. The part that has people running scared, per the advocacy of Phyllis Schlafly, is the notion that it won't allow for women to be exempt from the draft.

it would force another layer of regulation onto employers and businesses.  Go look at roofing crews and count the number of women across 20 of them.  Since there are, mostly likely, zero ... why should women be paid "equally" for work they won't do?  What other non-male dominated tasks are of "equal value" to roofing, construction, plumbing, hvac installation, electrical work, painting, ironwork, paving work, concrete pouring, commercial fishing, masonry, lumbering, cell tower erection and repair, etc?  And would football have to employ an equal number of women in each position?  Reality is that men dominate every field of work that involves significant risk of injury or death ... and that requires sustained high physical effort.  Equal rights?  What a laugh

Nothing new would have been accomplished.  Everything in the amendment was already in the Constitution, it was redundant.  

Women would be a protected class much like minorities, homosexuals and other "special groups". It would be like a Title 9 for all women. Womens' groups in the 1970 specifically didn't want special treatment because they saw their treatment was becoming fairer all the time. But now, EVERYBODY seems to want to be a victim worthy of special treatment. 

We already have equal rights. 

Equal rights, duh.