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
Inspired By My Grandmother
My grandmother was a Florida resident. After she got married in her early 20's, the government essentially treated her as the property of my grandfather. All documents and contracts had ...
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Now is the Time--Equal Rights for Women is a Human Right
An a woman who was born in 1965, it is incredible to me that the Equal Right Amendment is still not in the Constitution! I've had the luxury of standing ...
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Now is the Time to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
I only learned a few years ago that women did not have equal rights under the law. When I heard this, I was truly shocked that this was even possible. ...
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Washington for Equal Rights!
Unbelievably, we are still considering whether or not to acknowledge, in legislation, that women have full and complete personhood. It should not be partisan, nor controversial, to declare in the ...
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Womens Rights are Human Rights
Women's rights are human rights. I shouldn't have to rely on the goodwill of a manager to find out that I am getting paid less than my less-qualified male coworker. ...
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Too many generations of women in my family have died without seeing the ERA passed.
Having been a political activist beginning in the 60's I have gotten used to "hurry up and wait" experiences and have heard many specious arguments . However, the absolutely baseless ...
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Mamaw
My "Mamaw" was born in 1925 in Menard, Texas and probably wasn't today's ideal of a "feminist" – but she influenced my life, and the way I think, more than any ...
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The ERA is important to me because my family is important to me
Most of us want to think of ourselves as thoughtful, compassionate persons, even when it concerns more than just our immediate families. Our religions and our ethical learnings point us ...
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This inequality makes me feel ashamed to be an American.
During the past 100 years American women have been trying to gain assurance that the Constitution assures them the same rights as men. The fear of American men to legalize ...
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How is NOT acknowledging and protecting womens' equality still a thing?
I was born to a working mom in 1957, and she raised me to believe I could do anything. When I applied (age 15, fully qualified ) to a traditionally ...
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We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For
Attending a women's college, which only 2% of American women do, was both empowering and deeply sobering. As part of a community in which women were unapologetically centered, I learned ...
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"Awakening"
The question I asked myself is “why wasn’t I interested in the ERA until relatively recently?” When I married in 1968 – and what a year that was – I ...
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This Picture Still Awes Me
I was born in 1968 in Detroit, Michigan and I grew up with a single mom and two sisters in San Francisco, California. My mother and her friends fought hard ...
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I Am Ashamed
American women have been trying for almost a century to assure that they are accorded the same rights as men by inscribing such equal rights in our Constitution. And for ...
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We've come so far and yet...
My great aunt and her sister, my grandmother, both graduated from Smith College in the 1920s. The former became a legal secretary who worked for Ohio Senator Atlee Pomerene in ...
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Let´s cross that finish line
We have come a long way, but we still have not reached the finish line. In the United States Constitution women do not have equal rights under the law. Well ...
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Glass Ceilings in Technology Sector
I graduated college in the 70s, just at the time when IT was taking off and pulling in lots of new female graduates. Technology was supposed to be the great ...
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"Women aren't equal in America? That is crazy, Mom!"
Before we set off on the Women's March here in Munich in 2019, I told my children some of the reasons behind the March and they were genuinely shocked. I ...
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How is this not done yet?
When I sat in my civics class as a freshman in high school studying for my US constitution test it never occurred to me ask if women were recognised under ...
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