Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Not Yet Disarmed
In a federal court on Sept. 9, 2010, Judge Virginia Phillips delivered a landmark decision declaring the policy commonly known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to be unconstitutional.
Author: National Organization for Women
The Media’s Feminist Generational Divide Conspiracy
It seems the only topic on which older and younger feminists can definitively agree is that we have opinions about young feminism. Older feminists are the most likely to get air time, which is unfortunate, indefensible, and yet understandable.
Talking About Race In America
NOW’s Combating Racism Committee, with the National NOW Board’s approval, would like to help organize Combating Racism Workshops for NOW at the regional, state and chapter levels in the coming year.
Let Young Women Speak for Ourselves
Newsweek made several conclusions about young feminists, all without asking a single young woman. This is hardly the first time the media has painted a picture of abortion rights activism, or for that matter feminism in general, as a few grannies in a moving truck stalled somewhere between the assisted living facility and the nursing home. It is a serial genre novelette we can only call Invisible Young Woman.
Anti-Abortion Groups in a Tizzy over FDA’s Approval of Ella
On Aug. 13, the Food and Drug Administration approved ella, an emergency contraceptive pill effective up to five days after unprotected intercourse, for the U.S. market. Predictably, the usual suspects — the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and other anti-abortion rights groups — are outraged.
