Tonight, we will see a historic image. For the first time in our nation’s history, two women will be on the podium with the President as he delivers an address to a Joint Session of Congress. Vice President Harris and Speaker Pelosi are presiding over a new era where a progressive, feminist agenda is starting Read more …
Under the Trump Administration these past four years, the bold advances that women have made over the past decades, particularly those of our Black, Indigenous, Women of Color, Latinx, trans, and gender non-conforming relatives, have come under threat of regressing. We know the first 100 days are crucial in setting the tone and establishing priorities Read more …
It has been a mournful but all too familiar week in America after multiple mass shootings left nearly 20 people dead. In 2021 alone, the United States has experienced 156 mass shootings, which the Gun Violence Archive defines as an incident that leaves four or more people injured or killed. Gun violence is a distinctly American problem, and one that disproportionately affects women. Women are at the center of two intersecting public health crises: gun violence and Read more …
BACKGROUND THE ISSUE: NOW began working for passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) (H.R. 7) 24 years ago and we think it’s WAY PAST TIME for the U.S. Congress to adopt this legislation. The PFA would address pay disparities between women and men by closing loopholes in the 1963 Equal Pay Act and provide additional protections against pay discrimination. It’s more important than ever to ensure that women are paid equally during this time of major economic dislocations Read more …
Register for April 21st: Building Generations of Intersectional Feminists Heather Booth Heather Booth is one of the country’s leading strategists about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and women’s movements of the 1960s. She started JANE, an underground abortion service in 1965, before Roe. Read more …
Register for April 15th: NOW Town Hall: Building Generations of Intersectional Feminists Heather Booth Heather Booth is one of the country’s leading strategists about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and women’s movements of the 1960s. She started JANE, an underground abortion service in Read more …
In order to make good decisions, one has to be informed. This is not the case for the vast majority of high schoolers taking sex education classes. It’s a statistic that many don’t want to acknowledge, but it’s a statistic that is true: around 40% of high schoolers have been sexually active. Not only that, Read more …
“Women have lost so much ground in the pandemic; it could take years for them to recover from the economic stress created by losing their jobs and critical family income. We have to make sure that millions of women and their families do not fall into even deeper poverty. What we need is a major plan, much Read more …
In the fall of 2019, we launched our “Unlock the Future“campaign on behalf of the women and girls who were being held in Donald Trump’s horrific and immoral detention prisons. We issued a Bill of Rights and held rallies along the border along with elected officials, local leaders, coalition partners and others. Today, our advocacy for, and solidarity with this community in Read more …
Since Equal Pay Day was established by the National Committee on Pay Equity in 1996, the gender pay gap has decreased by less than 10 cents. Between 2018 to 2019, this disparity remained virtually stagnant with women earning only 82 cents on average for every dollar their male counterparts make. The data paints an even bleaker picture when broken Read more …