Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva October 1, 2025 Why is this federal shutdown different from all other shutdowns? Because this one is less about how the government spends its money and more about how much raw power Donald Trump can wield over every aspect of our lives – especially women’s lives. Donald Read more …
September 12, 2025 Background The Issue NOW chapters can endorse the much-needed Family and Medical Leave (FAMILY) Act which will be introduced on Tuesday, September 16. The FAMILY Act would create a national paid family and medical leave program to help ensure that people who work can take the time that they need to address Read more …
NOW Demands Action to Support Epstein Survivors Demands Release of Epstein Files Statement from NOW Board of Directors WASHINGTON—The National Organization for Women (NOW) Board of Directors has voted unanimously to support the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” which calls for releasing of all documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Powerful courage has been shown by women Read more …
August is Intersectionality Awareness Month, dedicated to exploring and understanding intersectionality, a term coined in the 1980s by UCLA and Columbia law professor of Kimberlé Crenshaw that seeks to define the overlapping oppressions that people who are part of multiple marginalized groups experience. “Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in Read more …
I spent the first eight years of my life in Narayanganj, a bustling city in Bangladesh, a small but densely populated country bordered by India and Myanmar. Even as a child, I understood there were different expectations for girls. We learned to walk quickly, speak softly, and stay alert. After we immigrated to the United Read more …
WASHINGTON— July 28, 2025—National Organization for Women (NOW) members have elected long-time feminist activists Kim Villanueva president and Rose Brunache vice president of the nation’s largest feminist grassroots organization. “We believe NOW must be the national feminist engine it was created to be—action-focused, fearless, strategic, and unafraid to call out the bigots and misogynists,” said Read more …
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is the date on the calendar that symbolizes the additional time Black women in the United States must work into the current year to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned in the previous year. In 2025, that date is today, July 10. Black women earn, on average, about 66 cents Read more …
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in history — the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. For more than sixty years, the Civil Rights Act and the Read more …
Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes The tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate is so horrendous that Vice President Vance had to cast a tie-breaking vote to get it passed. Senators know that Donald Trump’s massive giveaway to the rich is financed by cuts to health care, food assistance and Read more …
NOW was established 59 years ago today, on June 30, 1966. Today, NOW remains the front-line, intersectional, grassroots arm of our movement, with a history, record and reach that is a testament to the energy and dedication of NOW members. NOW began on that date, when a group of women decided they’d had enough of Read more …