It’s a strong season for women-led TV shows, but are the women strong characters?

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson talks about media portrayals of women in 2011 on NorthJersey.com: “It seems like Hollywood has seized the pre-feminist [leading] woman trend right now, between ‘The Playboy Club’ and the ‘Pan Am’ show, and it’s reall…

Women’s groups dress down Scott Brown

NOW President Terry O’Neill comments on Scott Brown’s remarks about Elizabeth Warren on Politico: “This is the kind of sexist misogynistic attack that we have very sadly come to expect from politicians whenever there is a strong woman who is capable and…

Congress Wants Planned Parenthood Records

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson calls Planned Parenthood investigation “merely the latest republican led attack,” on WUSA9.

Walmart Investing in Women

NOW President Terry O’Neill speaks on World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer about Walmart’s multibillion-dollar initiative to purchase products from women-owned businesses: “I’m completely underwhelmed. This is a company that has systematically discrimina…

Obama Jobs Plan: Women Pleasantly Surprised

Huffington Post quotes NOW President Terry O’Neill in an article on President Obama’s American Jobs Act: “We must close the gender wage gap, pay livable wages to women who work in traditionally female jobs and prepare women to move into higher-paying job…