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SPEAKER_06: Hi, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Kate Kelly and this is Womanica. This month, we're talking about innovators. These are women who helped shape the world we live in. From inventors to thinkers, whose decisions to explore new paths led us to where we are today. This episode is part of a crossover season with Ordinary Equality, all about the women whose work and activism contributed to the ongoing history of the Equal Rights Amendment. You can head over to that show to hear a longer version of today's episode and an interview with Pat Spearman herself. Today, we're talking about one of the living torchbearers of the ERA. She may not have started her career fighting for the ERA, but she's become one of its biggest champions. She fought for Nevada to ratify it and they did, 45 years to the day after Congress first passed the amendment. Let me introduce Senator Pat Spearman. Pat was born Patricia Ann Spearman in 1955 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her mother was a business school graduate and executive secretary who later became a traveling evangelist. Her father was a veteran, Tuskegee University graduate and electrician. They met as members of the Wings Over Jordan Choir, singing in large venues all over the country. Pat traveled with them, but they were traveling through a deeply racially divided United States. Most venues denied black people from using the front door, so even the performers had to enter through the back. They'd often bring food and drinks with them, so they didn't have to patronize segregated and often dangerous restaurants or hotels between stops. In 1962, Pat herself came face to face with this reality. She saw a white man drink from one water fountain and spit in the other. When she went to drink from the one that he had, her mother had to stop her from drinking in the white only fountain out of fear they'd be targeted. She was only seven years old. When Pat was a teenager, her family relocated to Alabama and she became one of the first students to integrate a local high school. She remembers racial harassment from other students opposed to integration, an experience that continued into her time at Norfolk State University of Virginia. Pat would later say these encounters lit a fire within her to fight back and make a difference. In college, Pat joined the ROTC and in 1977 joined the Army. When she enlisted, the Army was unwelcoming to women and entirely banned gay people from joining. Still, Pat worked in the military police corps of the US for 29 years. During that time, she became a celebrated lieutenant colonel. At the same time, the ERA, which Pat would later champion, was dwindling in popularity precisely because opponents claimed it would force women into military service, the very service that Pat had voluntarily entered. After serving, Pat attended the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. She graduated with a Master of Divinity and once again found herself confronting the racism and sexism of conservatives. When invited to preach, she was often introduced as the speaker rather than her proper title of the reverend and was even asked to stand away from her proper place at the pulpit. Pat remained undeterred. In 2005, she moved to Nevada and founded her own church, the Resurrection Faith Community Ministries. She served as pastor. In 2012, Pat began her political career by challenging Nevada State Senator John J. Lee, a two-term incumbent. He opposed abortion rights and same-sex marriage, issues Pat ardently supported. On the campaign trail, Pat was a force to be reckoned with. The combination of her formal speaking experience and her dedication to equality galvanized voters. She spent just 1 15th of the money her opponent did in the primary and won by a margin of 26 percentage points.
SPEAKER_06: Upon her election, Pat became the first openly lesbian legislator in Nevada State history.
SPEAKER_06: She prioritized and continues to support legislation to promote equality, veterans, and energy, E-V-E, or Eve, as a nod to the first woman in the Bible. In 2014, the Equal Rights Amendment came back to Pat. It fell short of ratification in the 1970s, and a group of women were searching for capable legislators to carry bills in the states that hadn't yet ratified it. Nevada was one such state, and Pat was one such legislator. She introduced her first bid at ratification in 2015, but the bill didn't make it out of committee. Ratifying an amendment from the 1970s, nearly 40 years later, was a leap in logic for many people. One legislator even told her that the quest made Nevada look like a laughing stock. But Pat was determined to ratify the E-R-A, if only because of its importance to pursuing permanent equality. Pat reintroduced the bill in 2016, and again the following year. Women's marches and the growing momentum of the gender equality movement lent the bill much needed strength. But the bill was coming up against the same arguments. It would force women to lose benefits and register for the draft. In the 2017 session, Pat took the floor wearing all white, a nod to suffragists, and argued for the E-R-A. At the end of the session, Pat had accumulated eight nays and 13 ayes. Nevada ratified the E-R-A, the first state to do so in four decades. Pat continues her fight for equality across all of her occupations and titles today. Since Nevada ratified the E-R-A, she helped two additional states ratify, Illinois and Virginia. She is currently running for mayor of North Las Vegas. Every time I see a good fight, I'm gonna get in it, and I'm not gonna quit until we win it. Thanks to Senator Pat Spearman for sharing her voice and wisdom. All month, we're highlighting innovators. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, at Wamanaka. Tune in tomorrow for the story of another innovator. Special thanks to Wamanaka's co-creators, Jenny and Liz Kaplan. Check out Ordinary Equality, the podcast and the book, for more on other leaders in the fight for equality.
SPEAKER_02: You see, my goal was always a seat at the table. It's what women are conditioned to believe success is. And when the chair doesn't fit, when it doesn't reach the table, when it's wobbly, when it's full of splinters, we don't have the luxury of fixing it or finding another one. But we try anyway. We try to find a way to make it happen. We try to find a way to make it happen. We try to find a way to make it happen. But we try anyways. We take on that responsibility and we shoulder that burden. Now, I've been fortunate enough to sit at a few seats at a few different tables. And what I've learned is, when you get the seat, trying to fix the seat won't fix the problem. Why? Because the table was never built for us in the first place. The solution? Build better tables. So, allow me to be your very own IKEA manual. I would like to present to you a set of guidelines I very eloquently call, how to build a table that doesn't suck. I've been told I'm very literal. Now, right off the bat, let me tell you, this assembly is gonna take more than one person or group of people. It's gonna take everyone. Are you ready? Should we dive in? Let's do it. Up first, don't weaponize gratitude. Now, don't get me wrong, gratitude is a great word. It's nice, it's fluffy, a solid 11 points in Scrabble. Okay? However, let's be clear. Although gratitude feels warm and fuzzy, it's not a form of currency. Women are assigned 10% more work and spend more time on unrewarded, unrecognized and non-promotable tasks. Basically what this means is all the things men don't wanna do are being handed to women. And a lot of those things largely include things that advance inclusivity, equity and diversity in the workplace. So hear me when I say, a woman should be grateful to sit at a table. She should be paid to sit at a table. Especially ones she largely helped build. And a woman's seat shouldn't be threatened if she doesn't seem grateful enough. In other words, corporations, this step involves a woman doing a job and being paid in money, opportunity and promotion, not just gratitude. And women, now go ahead, live it up, dude, live your life. And women, a moment of real talk. Trust me, I've been there and I know it is so tough, but we have to understand and remember that being grateful and being treated fairly are not mutually exclusive. I can be grateful, but still know exactly what I deserve. And that's the way to do it.
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