US Senate renews domestic violence bill despite Republican opposition

Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, is quoted in an article by Karen McVeigh of The Guardian: “O’Neill said that VAWA is a highly cost-effective way of reducing violence by providing services to victims and to hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes.…

Will Eric Cantor and House Republicans attempt to block the Violence Against Women Act?

Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, on Current TVs “Viewpoint”. hosted by John Fugelsang: “‘We have moved (Eric Cantor) enough to where he is beginning to change his rhetoric,’ O’Neill says of the Republican House majority leader from Virginia. ‘That’s clea…

House GOP In A Bind On Violence Against Women Act

NOW president Terry O’Neill is quoted in this article at Talking Points Memo

Fifty Years After “The Feminine Mystique”

NOW president Terry O’Neill is on “The Diane Rehm Show” to talk about the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”. A transcript is available at the link.

Senate Passes Re-Authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and Now It’s On to the House

Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, is quoted in an article by Meredith Turits of Glamour: “‘I had the sense that VAWA would be easy to get through the 113th Congress fairly quickly because if Republicans learned anything in the 2012 election, they have a p…