Wake Up, This Is the Reality!
If we want to enact change, we must join our voices together. NOW encourages all of our activists to take part in the series “Wake Up, This Is Reality!” organized by our sister organization, Fem2.0.
issue: Economic Justice
Women Working U.S. out of the Recession
Women are responsible for helping get us out of this recession. A recent PEW study suggests that 22 percent of heterosexual married couples have wives earning more then their husbands. Women are now more likely than ever before to be the bread winner and contribute a higher share of income to their families. It should be no surprise then that women now constitute almost 50 percent of all workers.
Health Care Reform Victory Comes with Tragic Setback for Women’s Rights
As a longtime proponent of health care reform, I truly wish that the National Organization for Women could join in celebrating the historic passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It pains me to have to stand against what many see as a major achievement. But feminist, progressive principles are in direct conflict with many of the compromises built into and tacked onto this legislation.
If Extortion Is Bad, So Is Predation
New York Times reporter Clyde Haberman quotes NOW President Terry O’Neill on the aftermath of the Letterman extortion — was Letterman really all that innocent?: “But underlying this messy business was the comedian’s penchant for bedding women who depended on him for their livelihood. While he may have been the victim of a clumsy extortion Read more …
NOW Echoes President Obama: Don’t Quit on Women
NOW President Terry O’Neill said, “President Obama’s State of the Union speech was never expected to be a policy address about women’s rights, but women were keenly listening to every line — and paying close attention to the messages between the lines, or left unsaid altogether.”