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
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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Glass Ceilings
We need the ERA to guarantee protection of women's rights because we are still underrepresented in the government, as well as many other fields that still have glass ceilings.
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We Need To Practice What We Preach
"We support women and girls in elected office." "We support women and girls getting paid the same as men in professional sports." "We support women and girls in S.T.E.M.M. [science, technology, ...
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Long past due #ERAnow
Both my children, my daughter and my son, deserve an America in which equality is made explicit in law - gender, racial, etc. The promises made to me in school, ...
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For my children
Equality is a truth, and I am ashamed that the United States of American doesn't formally recognize that truth in the U.S. Constitution. By making the ERA a law of ...
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Turning the Question Around
Well-meaning people sometimes wonder why an ERA is still needed in this world where our Vice-President is a woman, women are CEOs and the US Women's Soccer Team is the ...
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It’s 2021 and Women STILL are NOT in the US Constitution #DA4ERA #ERAnow
How can it be that in 2021 that US women do not have rights guaranteed in the US Constitution? And how can it be that over 88% of all countries ...
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