Hello,
Thank you for signing this ERA YES online petition. Please feel free to share the petition with others. Momentum for the Ratification of the ERA is building and your voice in support of the Equal Rights Amendment matters. Thank you.
If you ever encounter someone who says to you that women already have equal rights, share Sara Faulkner's story which appears in the July 13, 2020 edition of the Miami Herald.
"Sara Faulkner had the “it” factor as the first woman to graduate from the Coast Guard’s helicopter rescue swimmer school in North Carolina and join its elite group of swimmers. The South Florida woman’s against-the-odds story met a bitter end, she says, after sexual harassment saddled her with PTSD and forced the 20-year service member into retirement.
"Kristen Gonzalez, who worked with Faulkner in San Diego, recalled the toll harassment had taken... “Sara mentioned how frustrating it would be and lonely for her to be constantly alienated and daily having to work harder and prove more, but at the same time being treated like a minority,” Gonzalez wrote in October 2013. “After earning something as prestigious as becoming a rescue swimmer, all she wanted was to do the job like everyone else.”
The Ratification of the ERA will provide all women with Constitutional equality in the military and in all of life in the U.S.
Thank you, Sara, for your 20 years of service. Brava Sara.
R.Adams, secretary to The Yellow Roses
(Teens for Ratification of the ERA)