Press Releases

October 20: Bring America Home NOW Rally & Press Conference

Released on October 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – The housing crisis in the United States has reached a critical point due to long-standing structural inequities compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Congress debates President Biden’s “Build Back Better” Infrastructure Bill, advocates from across the affordable housing, women’s rights, and social justice movements have come together in an Read more …

NOW Urges Development of Housing Crisis Navigators

Released on October 18, 2021

NOW Urges Development of Housing Crisis “Navigators”   Coalition Requests Meeting with HUD Secretary Fudge & Treasury Deputy Secretary Adeyemo    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter last Friday, the National Organization for Women (NOW) along with Progressive Action Coalition, National Coalition for the Homeless, Housing is a Human Right, LULAC, African American Health Alliance, National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association, Emerald City Communications and Marketing, National Justice Read more …

Protect Students from Harassment and Violence Now

Released on October 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NOW urges the U.S. Department of Education to quickly restore and strengthen protections previously safeguarded by Title IX, a civil rights law aimed at equal opportunity in education. Those protections were seriously undermined by a Trump Administration rule, placing students in K- 12 grades as well as at post-secondary institutions at risk Read more …

First- Ever Inaugural Event, A Girls State Of The Union Address

Released on October 13, 2021

Washington, D.C. —  Girls today are facing tougher challenges than ever before. Which is why EveryGirl World and the National Organization for Women are putting together the first-ever Girls State of the Union, on October 21, 2021, at 7:30 pm ET, a soon-to-be historic event that puts girls in charge of their own future. This Read more …