CA0200 OJai 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.

ID0030 Southwest ID 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.

What does “love your body” mean to you?

Love Your Body, a campaign of the NOW Foundation, “challenges the message that a woman’s value is best measured through her willingness and ability to embody current beauty standards.” Women and girls are told, every day and in so many ways,that being admired, envied and desired based on their looks is a primary function of true womanhood. The beauty standards enforced by our society are rigid, narrow, unrealistic, and very, very white.

LA0116 Baton Rouge 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.

ID0040 North Idaho NOW

North Idaho, we’re so excited to bring you the North Idaho Chapter of the National Organizational for Women (N.I. NOW) – serving from Kootenai to Bonner to Boundary Counties! N.I. NOW is dedicated to a multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights & education. NOW chapters focus on six priority issues including reproductive rights, ending sex Read more …

LA0280 Ruston-Grambling 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.

What is chronic fatigue syndrome, and why aren’t we doing more to treat the illness?

A big part of the reason patients don’t get the help they need goes back to my question on the doctor’s table: What is CFS? There is no single, widely accepted definition of the illness, and some are so broad that patients under the CFS umbrella can have almost nothing in common with one another. This disparity stumps doctors, leading them to consider the illness psychosomatic.

Domestic Violence and Economic Security

When we discuss domestic violence, we most commonly tend to think about physical violence and sometimes, even mental or emotional abuse. Financial abuse and the lack of economic security are often neglected as very real consequences that survivors of domestic violence face.

2014 Conference Resolutions

Faces of Feminism: Strength in Diversity Conference Agenda Thursday, June 26 Time Activity 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm Registration Friday, June 27 Time Activity 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Ask NOW Kiosk 8:30 am – 12:00 pm: Field Department 2:15 pm – 4:30 pm: Communications Department 9:00 am – Read more …