Category: Constitutional Equality
Progress Marches Forward Today for the ERA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The march towards constitutional equality for women made up for years of lost ground today, as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s resolution to eliminate the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment was voted out of the committee. NOW has been on the front lines of advocacy for the ERA for Read more …
Missouri Must Stop Tracking Planned Parenthood Patients’ Menstrual Cycles
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– You have no privacy. You have no rights. Your body belongs to the state. That’s the message Missouri women are getting with the news that the state is monitoring the menstrual cycles of women who receive abortion care from Planned Parenthood. The state health director, Randall Williams, kept a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual Read more …
PRO: Workplace discrimination holds women back
This isn’t a wage gap. It’s wage theft. And it’s not only stealing money from women, it’s stealing their future.
PRO: Workplace discrimination holds women back
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women who hold full-time jobs in the United States lose a combined total of more than $915 billion every year because of this wage gap.