Reflections on and from Mothers, Sisters

and Equal Rights for Women

In my mind’s eye, I remember my mother marching for the enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment in Raleigh in 1981. She was not exactly a feminist by 21st-century standards, but she did believe in equal treatment under the law.

She loved children, had five of them, and six grandchildren. She also believed the hundreds of young people she taught over 25 …