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Issue Advisory: Restoring Democracy – Court Ruling Approves Independent Commissions to Counter Gerrymandering

In 1989, NOW members at the National NOW Conference adopted a resolution calling for “direct and equal representation for women in elected office and at all levels of government.” It reminded readers at the time that only five percent of the members of Congress and 17 percent of members of state legislatures were women. The resolution resolved that the goal of equal representation for women can only be accomplished by “pursuing legal strategies which challenge reapportionment plans for gender and racial bias” and “requiring redistricting guidelines that make gender balance and increasing representation of women a priority.”

Transgender Awareness Week

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By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern   (source: www.sdgln.com) Transgender: an umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. People under this umbrella may describe themselves using one or more terms (trans, transgender man or transgender woman). Transgender identity Read more …

2015 National NOW Conference

From the Grassroots Up: Action at the Intersections Conference Agenda Thursday, June 18 Time Activity 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm Registration and Credentialing 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Break 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Registration and Credentialing Friday, June 19 Time Activity 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration and Credentialing Exhibitors and Vendors 9:30 am Read more …

Conference Agenda

Thursday, June 23 Time Activity 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Registration and Credentialing 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Registration and Credentialing 7:00 PM 50th Anniversary Gala Friday, June 24 Time Activity 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration and Credentialing Exhibitors and Vendors 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM Welcome Plenary Moderator: Patricia Ireland Speakers: Patricia Hill Collins, Read more …

PA0535 Squirrel Hill NOW

NOW chapters focus on six priority issues including reproductive rights, ending sex discrimination/constitutional equality, promoting diversity and ending racism, economic justice, stopping violence against women, and LGBTQIA rights. Our chapter welcomes new members to help fight for women’s rights on the local and national level.  

ISSUE ADVISORY: Working Women – Progress Made Towards Pay & Workplace Equity

Analysis from the most recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the gender wage gap was at 78.6 percent for full-time, year round workers in 2014. The gap has narrowed only a few percentage points over the last 15 years and, as has been pointed out, if the annual earnings ratio (the wage gap) continues at the same snail-paced rate it has maintained since 1960, women’s pay will not reach parity with men’s until 2059

ISSUE ADVISORY: Working Women – Progress Made Towards Pay & Workplace Equity

Analysis from the most recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the gender wage gap was at 78.6 percent for full-time, year round workers in 2014. The gap has narrowed only a few percentage points over the last 15 years and, as has been pointed out, if the annual earnings ratio (the wage gap) continues at the same snail-paced rate it has maintained since 1960, women’s pay will not reach parity with men’s until 2059

A Hillary Clinton Story That Matters

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Here’s what I care about regarding emails and Hillary Clinton — it’s what’s in my inbox. I’ve been hearing from a lot of women who are proud of Hillary Clinton’s lifelong commitment to preventing violence against women. Lately, they’ve been telling me they like what they’ve seen and heard about her vision for preventing the alarming Read more …

#ThanksObama

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I want to start this off by saying #ThanksObama. Thank you for keeping coverage of birth control in the Affordable Care Act. The first day I got my period, I genuinely thought I was dying. I was 10 years old, driving with my family to the beach and all of a sudden I was in Read more …

FDA Approves First Drug To Boost Women’s Sexual Desire

The decision was welcomed by some doctors and women’s advocates, who said they hoped it would open to the door to more drugs to help women with sexual problems.

‘Clearly we need more than just one medication — women need to have an array of choices that meets their specific medical needs,’ says Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women. ‘So with this success I think there will be more development of more medications. And that is all to the good.’