WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Women’s History Month and every month, NOW celebrates women’s historic achievements in the national spotlight and behind the scenes. Even now as women are bearing the brunt of a national health and economic crisis and are still the majority of frontline and essential workers battling COVID-19, they continue to overcome the obstacles before them and make strides 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 for Read more …
February 3, 2021 Call your Senators – Urge that they vote to fund President Biden’s Stimulus and COVID Relief Package – The American Rescue Plan. As he promised before the inauguration, PresidentBiden has proposed a significant pandemic relief package that will help the American people and the economy after the third and seemingly deadliest wave Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of National Organization for Women (NOW) co-founder Betty Friedan. Her groundbreaking work as the “mother” of the modern women’s rights movement includes her seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, and her election as NOW’s first president. An author, journalist, educator, and activist, Friedan launched NOW on June 30, 1966 while at Read more …
A year ago, none of us could have predicted just how devastating this pandemic would become. It has pulled back the curtain and shone an even brighter spotlight on entrenched social and economic inequities, particularly for BIWOC, Latinx, trans, gender non-conforming and immigrant populations. While these communities were and continue to be overrepresented in industries that were Read more …
Homelessness casts a dark shadow over the United States, affecting over 560,000 Americans nation-wide. While homelessness presents the ever-present struggle to find food, shelter, and basic resources, women are particularly affected. With every month comes a new menstrual cycle and the challenge to find expensive hygiene products, privacy to change those products, pain relief, and Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NOW reaffirms our commitment to continue fighting for racial justice and the lives and rights of Black people across the nation. In the last year, we have seen the impacts of structural racism dominate the news cycle again and again. From the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, to the murders of George Read more …
A few hours after I hit “send” on my message to you last week, the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol began. The optimism I felt that morning, just hours after the Georgia Senate runoffs, was quickly overshadowed by shock, as the women in Congress I had praised in my message were seconds away from a potential hostage or Read more …
Charge Violent Perpetrators as Domestic Terrorists & Institute a National Day of Apology for Peaceful Protestors Who Were Excessively Policed in the Past WASHINGTON, D.C. – Make no mistake. What we witnessed taking place in our Capitol yesterday was a painful dichotomy of restoring democracy and domestic terrorism. As the morning started, many of us were elated with happiness and celebrating the Georgia victory of Senator-elect Warnock and Read more …
Let’s all join together in saying goodbye to a year the likes of which we hope to never see again. But let’s also celebrate all we’ve managed to achieve together, and recognize the difference we made in defending our most deeply held values and beliefs. You can take pride in each and every item on this checklist of feminist victories in 2020. Our work is Read more …