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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.  But today, those rights are threatened by budget cuts Read more …

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is proud to stand in solidarity with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The Trump Administration’s indictment of SPLC is a shocking abuse of power, designed by a Justice Department that has lost its way t Read more …

Black Maternal Health Week , held annually from April 11-17, is a campaign founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) to build awareness, activism, and community. It amplifies voices and lived experiences to advocate for the elimination of mater Read more …

Today is Equal Pay Day — a date no one wants to celebrate. It marks how many days into 2026 women must work just to match what men were paid in 2025. In 2025, the gender wage gap widened, with women earning 18.6% less than men per hour on average. But Read more …

March is Women’s History Month. Like every milestone along the timeline of women’s rights, this recognition has not come easily.  The historian Gerda Lerner, one of the founders of the academic field of women’s history, said, “When I started working on Read more …

By Kim Villanueva Our U.S. Constitution requires the President to report to Congress on “the State of the Union.”  The framers wanted to make clear that the President is no king, but rather an executive who serves alongside – and is accountable to — w Read more …

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month—but you wouldn’t know it from listening to Donald Trump. He opened his second term by attacking Black history education as “indoctrination.” His administration has dismantled Black history exhibit Read more …

January 22, 2026, marks 53 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, recognizing the constitutional right to privacy and guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States. But that right was stripped away in 2022, when the votes of Read more …

Seventy years ago today, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of taking her expected place in the back — an area designated for African Americans — she chose a seat in the front. When the bus driver demanded tha Read more …

November 18, 2025, marks Native Women’s Equal Pay Day — falling within Native American Heritage Month and underscoring a painful truth about economic inequality in the United States. This date represents how far into the year Native women must work to Read more …