Shari Temple at Democrats Abroad

Shari Temple

Information Technology Director; Steering Committee - Global Womens Caucus; Global ERA Task Force Chair; Germany DPCA Rep

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Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-23 14:44:14 -0400

Equal Rights for women does not mean less rights for men

Sasha, I live in Germany and vote in CA Throughout history the important roles of women have been downplayed, altered or left out entirely. Until 50 years ago, women could ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-23 08:56:39 -0400

Before I die

Born in 1947, I grew up being told I could not be the president, or a doctor, or a race car driver. The only options for smart girls were teacher, ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-23 07:29:15 -0400

COVID-19’s impact on women has given added urgency to add the ERA to the U.S. Constitution

I certainly have experienced gender inequality, mainly regarding equal pay, throughout my career as I am sure many have. However, in comparison, with the crisis of COVID, we know that ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-23 03:21:13 -0400

Don't let the fight for the ERA be something we pass down to future generations

While we have made what are considered great strides over the last several decades in equality for women, we still have a ways to go for women to be considered ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-23 02:47:53 -0400

Onward!

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex." While more progress has been made in granting women ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 15:03:02 -0400

What they didn't tell me about Democracy

In 1953, less than 10 years after WWII, at the invitation of the US government, I came to Maryland for a year as a German exchange student to learn about ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 15:00:06 -0400

Try explaining this to foreigners

It is the year 2021 and NOW is the time to change the "All Men are Created Equal" part of our constitution. I simply cannot understand how a country like ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 14:51:04 -0400

An Urgent Intersectional and Safety Necessity

Passing the Equal Rights Amendment is long past due, but fortunately, we as a country have a pathway in front of us to renounce discrimination of equal rights on account ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 14:43:12 -0400

When Men and Women Live in True Brotherhood....

I'm an academic, I live in France, and I vote in Massachusetts. Back in the 70s I read Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking book "The Second Sex" and it changed my ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 10:59:40 -0400

We Need the ERA Now More Than Ever

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." This is what the ERA guarantees. ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 10:58:26 -0400

Always encouraged to do anything I thought I wanted to or could

It was my father who taught my mother to cook, sew, and clean the house. He´d grown up on a farm and had to share in all kinds of chores. ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 07:31:08 -0400

Fighting for the Right to Follow our Dreams!

As a young college student, I had two passions: politics and music. While I was trying to decide whether to follow in the footsteps of my beloved uncle who travelled ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 07:27:44 -0400

Too Long to Wait

In high school, during the late '70s, I wrote a research paper on the ERA giving the pros and cons of its ratification. At that time, it did not occur ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-22 07:23:56 -0400

Language Matters

I think I was always a feminist. As a child I grew up in a conservative Italian Catholic home in New Jersey, and my parents were active in local politics. ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-21 11:12:50 -0400

"With liberty and justice for all"

Because I have worked in schools most of my life, I have heard that phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance almost every day. Each time I have thought about the ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-21 08:25:00 -0400

Take your feet off my neck

I am a NJ voter living overseas in Israel. I have been fighting for the ERA since I was a child with my mom in the 1960s and 1970s. I ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-21 05:22:20 -0400

Scientists: Can't live with them, can't live without them

My job as a research scientist studying earthquakes and volcanoes occasionally took me to Washington, DC. I took advantage of a couple of these trips to take my kids to ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-21 05:19:18 -0400

High Time for Equality! Half of all Americans has been waiting for centuries!!

I was shocked to read that men of any race were constitutionally given the vote over 50 years before women of any race could hope to exercise this fundamental democratic ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-21 05:16:47 -0400

Can't believe I am going to be 60 and the ERA has yet to be passed.

Yes, it's true, 60 is just around the corner for me and I remember, like others who grew up in the 70s, all the talk of the ERA. Frankly, it's ...