On the Record

The fight to achieve pay equity for women and LGBTQIA+ individuals, particularly women of color, is an integral platform of NOW’s intersectional issues agenda. August 28 has been designated #NHPIWomensEqualPayDay to raise awareness about the Native Haw Read more …

Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day” in 1973 to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. The movement to recognize this date began on the 50th anniversary of the Read more …

International Youth Day is observed on August 12 every year to bring issues of importance to youth to the attention of the international community and celebrating the potential of youth as partners in building a culture of nonviolence, promoting peace, Read more …

August 7 is Moms’ Equal Pay Day when we call out the persistent wage gap experienced by mothers in the workplace. Numbers don’t lie—and the facts are appalling.  Moms working full-time, year-round are paid 71 cents and all earners (including part-time Read more …

The month of July was designated as Disability Pride Month to mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was passed on July 26, 1990. The first celebration was a Disability Pride Day that year in Boston, and Chicago hosted Read more …

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is one of those yearly observances we don’t celebrate as a holiday—it’s more of a reminder, a marker, a warning. On this day, we calculate the extent of the disgraceful pay inequity that Black women face in the U.S.  This da Read more …

Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964—one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in history. Here’s a link to President Johnson’s historic speech on that occasion.  But watching it Read more …

Juneteenth, the day that marks of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s, but it wasn’t until 2021 that it became a federal holiday. President Biden signed legislation t Read more …

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities and honor the significant victories since the historic Stonewall Uprising in June 1969.  Six days of protest after a police raid of a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Read more …

George Floyd Remembrance Day is a call to action. We at NOW are steadfast in our fight for federal legislation to ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants, and to challenge the qualified immunity protections that shield law enforcement from accountability.