stories
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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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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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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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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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All Women Deserve Equal Rights — Especially Single Mothers
Why is the ERA important to me? Well, in America, nearly 60% of poor children are living in single-mother families. I‘m married ,and my children have never experienced poverty. But ...
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ERA Now!
What a shame that there’s even a need for the ERA! But there is and I want my grandchildren, who live in Florida, to grow up knowing they have the ...
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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. ...