On the Record

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of National Organization for Women (NOW) co-founder Betty Friedan. Her groundbreaking work as the “mother” of the modern women’s rights movement includes her seminal book, The Femin Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Black History Month, NOW is excited to engage our grassroots in efforts that will move the country forward on racial justice issues. With a new administration in place, we know we must prioritize making progress towards ending p Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Organization for Women (NOW) has called for a boycott against the state of South Carolina in the wake of the state Senate passage of legislation that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. The call is jo Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today’s inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will long be remembered by history, and by every one of us who worked so hard for this moment.  Donald Trump has spent the last four years taking a wrecking ball to policies and law Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NOW reaffirms our commitment to continue fighting for racial justice and the lives and rights of Black people across the nation. In the last year, we have seen the impacts of structural racism dominat Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The middle-of-the-night execution of Lisa Montgomery, hastened by the rush-to-execute mandate of Donald Trump’s Justice Department, was a shock to our system of fairness, justice, and decency.  In any other week, it would have been Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump must be impeached now, and for the sake of history.  He must stand in judgment before the Congress he defiled, desecrated and made into a target for insurrectionists who answered his call to be “wild” and stop the certi Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—November marks Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the over 575 tribal communities of the United States, their cultures, and the countless contributions Native and Indigenous people have made to our society. At NOW, we Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As a national conversation around police brutality continued this year, activists brought attention to another issue impacting Black Americans and our nation as a whole — violence against the transgender community. In 2020 alone, at le Read more …

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with justices he could count on to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Today, in the midst of a global pandemic when health care is needed most, we are watching to see if Amy Coney Barre Read more …