Monthly Archive: June 2012

Working to ensure our daughters inherit a more equal society!

NOW advocates for a wide range of economic justice issues affecting women, from the glass ceiling to the sticky floor of poverty.  These include welfare reform, livable wages, job discrimination, pay equity, housing, social security and pension reform, and much more.  We strongly support the passage of CEDAW

Promoting reproductive, environmental and social justice!

NOW affirms that reproductive rights are issues of life and death for women, not mere matters of choice.  NOW fully supports access to safe and legal abortion, to effective birth control and emergency contraception, to reproductive health services and education for all women.  We oppose attempts to restrict these rights through legislation, regulation or Constitutional …

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Speaking out about the violence against women

NOW is unique in its approach to the issue of violence against women, emphasizing that there are many interrelated aspects to the issue – domestic violence; sexual assault; sexual harassment; violence at abortion clinics; hate crimes across lines of gender, sexuality and race; the gender bias in our judicial system that further victimizes survivors of …

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