Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954.

She was "instrumental" in including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[2] She married Hicks George Griffiths (July 9, 1940 – March 4, 1996), a lawyer and a judge as well as chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party from 1949 to 1950.

She worked as a lawyer in private practice, then in the legal department of the American Automobile Insurance Co. in Detroit from 1941 to 1942 and then as the Ordnance District contract negotiator from 1942 to 1946.

She was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, serving from 1949 to 1953 for the Wayne County 1st district.

The Guardian described her as "the mother of the Equal Rights Amendment", adding: The weapons she deployed during her 10-term congressional career included implacable determination, a lawyer's grasp of procedural niceties, and a tongue like a blacksmith's rasp.