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
The government needs to hold us all accountable until we begin to do it ourselves
If we lived in a perfect world, we would all be treated equally despite our genders. We are not anywhere close to living in that world, and we have an ...
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Bring America up to par
We need the era to bring america up to par with international standards of equity, infant mortality, sanity! This goes thru ratifying the era
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ERA is common-sense legislation
The ERA is the kind of common-sense legislation that anyone who believes in the promise of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights should support fervently. As a ...
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Now Is The Time
The Equal Rights Amendment will be an exceptional addition to the Constitution allowing women the freedom to express their voices fully and be equally involved in the matters that are ...
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Leading the Way with the ERA
“Why do they call it ‘Apollo 11’ when we’re going to the moon, not the sun? It should be named after Artemis, Apollo’s twin sister, Goddess of the moon” I ...
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None of Us Are Equal Until All of Us Are Equal - The ERA for Women is Long-Overdue in the USA!
I am once again asking Congress to finally add the ERA to the US Constitution! While women won the right to vote in 1920, women still do not have equal ...
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In tribute to my mother and grandmother
I support the ERA in tribute to my maternal forbears. My grandmother, the daughter of immigrants, was born into a world that did not accord women the right to vote—an ...
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ERA for a young boy
When I was young, perhaps at the age of 10, I heard the term ERA for the first time. I was watching TV and people were saying some very bad ...
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#ERANow
Back in 1975 I read about Title IX in WomenSports magazine and then shared it with a friend whose love of basketball equaled mine. We were inspired to petition our ...
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Unequal pay!
I was the CEO of multiple credit unions. During my tenure every position I took (I was a specialist for rehabilitating troubled credit unions). When I took my last position ...
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Equal Rights for American - pass the Equal Rights Amendment
JimMercereau living in Spain and voting in Florida. The Equal Rights Amendment levels the playing field. It could certainly would benefit men and women. The ERA would create a constitutional ...
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From Grandma's Pay Discrimination to A Protest Marcher Today – We need the ERA!
I remember well when my grandmother, a university lecturer at BYU, (with whom I was living with at the time) informed the family that she had been refused an expected ...
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Getting done what is right!
Finally having the ERA in the Constitution means to me finally getting done what is right. We Americans are a nation whose strength stems from our diversity. Equality is required ...
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Shaping a girl's perception of POSSIBLE
I am 61 years old, a Washington DC native living in France since college days. I recall all those moments in the 1960s and 70s when as a young girl, ...
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Improving the quality of life for everyone
I live in a country (Spain) whose constitution dates from the same year I first marched in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. The 14th amendment of the Spanish constitution ...
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Second Class Citizens No Longer
Women have been second class citizens in the United States for too long and until our rights as equals are enshrined in the Constitution we will continue to be so. ...
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ERA: For the Dads, and Moms, and especially the kids!
My husband was able to take paternity leave - what a bond that created with him and our kids! That was something my father couldn’t have imagined. I’ve been better ...
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I thought we had this matter settled
Much of the 36 years that I was a professor at the University of Kentucky, I was active in the American Assocation of University Professors (AAUP). For all of that ...
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Support your constituents - not corporations.
The job of Congress is to represent the people of the United States, passing legislation that supports your constituents. 52% of your constituents are women. They are not insurance companies ...
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