NOW and Social Security

See Also: NOW and Economic Equity

Talking Points About Women, Social Security and Privatization (3/05)

Audio available from National Council of Women's Organizations Press Conference on Social Security (2/05)

Strengthening Social Security for Women: A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security - NOW has been working on the issue of Social Security for years. The information in this 1999 report remains relevant to the current debate.

Latest News

• Action Alert: Pension Bill Aids Spouses, but May Attack Social Security (10/05)
• Social Security Turns 70: Bush Plans Forced Retirement (09/05)
• Social Security: The Fight of a Lifetime (8/05)
• We Owe Social Security to a Woman (8/05)
• Cut the Cake, Not the Benefits! Celebrate Social Security's 70th Birthday (8/05)
• A Community Dialogue on Social Security & Women (6/05)
• Viewpoint: A Foolish Bargain for Women (5/05)
• Talking Social Security While the Privatization Push Continues (5/05)
• NOW to George W. Bush: No Benefit Cuts, No Way (4/05)
• NOW Opposes White House Attempt to Privatize Social Security (4/05)
• Stand Up and Speak Out for Social Security on April 26th (4/05)
• Women’s Organizations Condemn Privatizers’ Attacks on Stay-At-Home Moms, Cite Gross Hypocrisy of Party Claiming Mantle of Family Values (3/05)
• Information Sources on Social Security (3/05)
• Facts: Social Security Is Vital to Women (3/05)
• Women Answer the President on Social Security (2/05)
• NOW Warns Women About Bush's Social Security Scheme (2/05)
• Letter from NOW and NAACP to George W. Bush Regarding a "Separate but Equal" Social Security System (1/05)
• Bond, Gandy: Mr. President, Social Security Should Not Be Separate But Equal (Campaign for America's Future) (1/05)
• Statement of the National Council of Women's Organizations Task Force on Women and Social Security on "Gender Adjustments" (1/05)
• Editorial by Kim Gandy in the San Francisco Chronicle: Social Security: A 'reform' only Wall Street could love (1/05)
• Viewpoint: Don't Worry About Your Golden Years, Wall Street's Got Just the Plan for You (1/05)
• NOW Takes Leading Role in Saving Social Security; The Faces of Social Security (1/05)

Archive

2004

• Privatizing Social Security Will Hurt Women (12/04)
• NOW Joins Aggressive Campaign to Stop Destruction of Social Security (12/04)
• Fact Sheet: Social Security (11/04)

2002

• Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy: Women Need Real Economic Security (2/02)

2001

• Feminists Call For Strengthening Social Security, Not Peddling Privatization (8/01)

2000

• Women and Social Security Impact Presidential Race (8/00)

1999

• Strengthening Social Security for Women: A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security (7/99)
• Viewpoint: Women Most Vulnerable in Social Security Debate (Winter 1999)
• Social Security Vital to Women (Spring 1999)

1998

• NOW President Patricia Ireland Joins National Leaders In Call to Strengthen Social Security (12/98)
• Statement of NOW President Patricia Ireland On Social Security (12/98)

See Also:

• Social Security Administration