Press Releases

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 women’s history the field did not exist. Men didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.”  Some still don’t.  In Read more …

Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva  What is it about Donald Trump’s angry, domineering, patronizing, disrespectful, and self-centered State of the Union that women find so familiar?  A political movement has grown around a culture that glorifies aggression, division, and domination. In that world, women are vilified and attacked simply for demanding equality.  Today, that backlash is an animating Read more …

Statement of National NOW President Kim Villanueva  WASHINGTON—Rev. Jesse Jackson embraced the intersectionality of civil rights across gender and race.   He always stood with women who, as he so often said, ‘take the early bus’ to jobs where they are underpaid, undervalued, and too often subjected to discrimination or sexual harassment.  He was a lifelong advocate for equal pay and economic justice for women, and he worked to increase political Read more …