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Shari Temple

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

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Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-20 04:18:18 -0400

WHAT IF the ERA had passed in 1923?

When I was a little girl, the first hobby I picked up was Tawkwon-do. I was good. The boys in my dojo didn't like practicing against a girl who could ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-20 02:07:38 -0400

Still Waiting...

I'm 63 years old. I've been waiting for this since the '70s. Let's hope these 24 words finally change the world for the better--and for all of us.

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-19 12:44:03 -0400

In holding, I am held

As a child I knew that the ERA existed, and that its existence mattered. My country cared – about me. My country has a powerful and beautiful constitution, but for ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-18 17:45:31 -0400

My mom was and still is my inspiration

My mom, Vera Moritz, was and still is my inspiration for being a strong, politically active woman and fighter of the ratification of The Equal Rights Amendment. She was a ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-18 09:02:10 -0400

Can you accept someone’s decisions for you without your involvement and opinions?

It has been 97 years since the first version of the ERA was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. Well, we have waited too long and it is about ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-18 08:18:33 -0400

Women Are No Longer “Asking” for Their Rights

When I was a young girl and writing my first thank-you note to an adult friend of the family for a gift she had given me, my mother taught me ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-18 04:40:05 -0400

I have Equal Rights in Germany but not when I'm in the U.S.

I've been an American living in Germany since 1972 and truly appreciate the democratic freedoms and standards that out protected under the German Grundgesetz or Basic Law. I fully support ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 16:55:29 -0400

It's that simple. And long overdue!

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.“ Pretty simple. As a young girl ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 16:55:03 -0400

The ERA From a Veteran's Perspective

Dear Member of Congress, Federal courts have ruled that the ERA cannot be included in our great nation's Constitution because the 1982 deadline has passed. This will go up to ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 15:28:34 -0400

For my children's future

I've recently gotten engaged, and it's made me think a lot about the kind of world that I want my children to grow up in. My mom was younger than ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 15:28:06 -0400

What Do We Want? Equality!- When Do Want it? NOW!

I live in Germany, but I spent most of my life in the country of my birth, the United States of America. In Germany, I have equal rights, and it ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 13:25:09 -0400

The Time Has Definitely Come!

Since studying the story of the ERA movement's history at the University of Southern Indiana, I have felt driven to contribute however I can to it's eventual addition to the ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 12:41:14 -0400

For my mom

This is a picture of my mom and me at the Women's March in D.C. on Jan. 21st, 2017, her 73rd birthday. We'd be planning our trip to Washington for ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 12:40:44 -0400

A New Yorker for the ERA

My mother aspired to be a doctor—but as an undergraduate at Northwestern just prior to World War 2, she was discouraged, because of her gender. America lost a great doctor. ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 12:40:16 -0400

Let's not "make the best" out of what we know we can do Better

In 1975 North Dakota ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. At about the same time, there is a picture of my Grandmother Helen at her college graduation. In her late 50s, ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 10:14:57 -0400

In honor of all those who have paved the way

Growing up in a household with a mother who was an early feminist always led me to believe that I could do anything I set my mind to. My mother ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 10:12:53 -0400

It's self-explanatory

The United States has for too long touted the ideals of equality, without actually practicing them. The ERA is a crucial step toward equality for all in the United States. ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 09:28:01 -0400

I don't want the ERA but...

It shocks me that we have to instill women's rights in a document. How is it possible that we still need to make special laws so that people treat women ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 09:23:33 -0400

Time to move forward

Happy women = happy society and we in the United States need to move forward and acknowledge women's equality to men. We as women - mothers, daughters, sisters and wives ...

Shari Temple tagged this with approved 2021-03-17 09:22:42 -0400

Justice delayed is justice denied

The story of the Equal Rights Amendment spans most of my lifetime, and its delay is a milestone in the titanic shift in American politics, away from social justice and ...