issue: Stopping Violence Against Women

David Crary of the Associated Press in New York interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill on what she’s done since being elected as president in June: “Men behaving badly. It wasn’t a topic that Terry O’Neill expected to find high on her agenda as new president of the National Organization for Women, but she’s tackling it Read more …

Canada’s Gazette newspaper featured an editorial about Letterman’s workplace behavior is a set-back for women in the workplace: “What Letterman did wasn’t illegal. To many people, it wasn’t immoral, either. But for a lot of women in the workforce, it brought back the bad old days when women were routinely viewed as sexual objects, easy Read more …

Watch NOW President Terry O’Neill talking about the Letterman controversy on a story that aired on ABC’s World News Tonight with Charles Gibson: “Some people aren’t laughing about the late night funnyman’s recent revelations.”

Watch NOW President Terry O’Neill on CNN Headline News’ Joy Behar Show. Terry talks about how the Letterman controversy has brought up workplace issues for women: “NOW President Terry O’Neill tells HLN’s Joy Behar that David Letterman is fostering a ‘toxic workplace.’”

Julie Menin writes on Huffington Post: “To date, the public outrage about David Letterman’s affair(s) of the heart has been pretty minimal. . . . Other than recent statements from groups such as NOW, women commentators and women’s groups have generally seemed nonplussed about his conduct and haven’t seemed to find it all that objectionable. Read more …