Pages tagged “stories”
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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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The ERA is Above Party Politics
I grew up in Northern California in a divided and polarised household. Politics were the regular side dish and both Republicans and Democrats were at the table. I know I ...
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We all must keep pushing!
At its core, law is the expression of a society. It lays bare our ambitions, priorities, and boundaries as humans. It is the tangible and binding articulation of the society ...