Shari Temple
Global IT Team Chair; Global Womens Caucus Steering Team; Global ERA Task Force Chair; Germany Secretary; Germany DPCA Rep
LATEST BY Shari Temple
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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Time for The Equal Rights Amendment to be part of the Constitution
The past year has certainly been an education for me as up until then I was one of the 85% of the US population who thought that the Equal Rights ...
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Women's rights are everyone's rights, including our children's
When women are afforded the same rights are men, they thrive, their families thrive, their children thrive. As a latina born in the US, I have been fortunate to have ...
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"The Only Job for You is a Woman's Career"
Equality is Important. I remember the first full time professional job I held, which was at a city in Southern New Mexico. My husband and I had been in New ...
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Enough is enough
Here's a picture of my kids. They're standard teenagers. Yet one of these young people will have a much easier time throughout life simply because he was born male. Statistically, ...
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It’s Been Too Long Coming, But a Change Needs to Come!
I was very active during the 1960s in the Civil Rights movement, and I can say that for most of my life I have been fighting for my Civil Rights. ...
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Hoosier pride calls us to continue the fight for ERA
My home state of Indiana became the 35th and last state to ratify the ERA on January 18, 1977. Since then it has stalled. Just two years ago, Hoosiers marked ...
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A moral marker for who we are
Growing up as the son of a single mom, I can recall a number of moments when she openly and publicly challenged what she perceived to be unjustified inequality in ...
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“the rising of the women is the rising of the race”
I try to be a MENSCH … a good person. It isn’t easy, especially alone. In my Jewish Tradition, there have been women that overcame, not only threats to our ...
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No illusions - but it's long past time for the ERA
I don't have any illusions that passing the ERA will magically bring gender equality to the US. I don't believe passing the ERA will suddenly fix the systemic inequalities and ...
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Equality for My Heroes
Most of my heroes are women. My mother, an artist and writer, possesses the most adventurous, curious and brilliant mind I've ever known and inspires me unendingly as I travel ...
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Vote to Ratify the ERA Now; Waiting 97 Years Should Embarrass Us
I recently looked through my high school yearbook Class of '62 and was struck by the fact that all my female classmates limited their hoped-for future occupations to teacher, nurse, ...
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The Equal Rights Act is long overdue - now is the time!
The ERA was a hot topic when I was in high school in the 1970s. One of my friends claimed that the ERA would give men the right to use ...
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Strong women
I am a 52 year old male who was raised by a strong mother who worked harder than anyone I know to raise and provide for her four children. My ...
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