Wednesday, January 30, 2019, at 9:00 AM, Democratic Members of Congress will join national organizations to reintroduce the Paycheck Fairness Act ten years after the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by President Barack Obama. Women working full-time, year-round still earn 80 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men. One key way to start closing the pay gap Read more …
NOW is participating in a coalition to collect signatures in support of removing the time limit on the Equal Rights Amendment. As Virginia makes progress towards becoming the final state needed to ratify the ERA, NOW wants to ensure that there is a groundswell of support to rescind the 1972 deadline (simultaneously rescinding the 1982 Read more …
A short history about the leading role taken by the the National Organization for Women (NOW) over many years to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution