Released on August 28, 2025
August 28, 2025, is Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Women’s Equal Pay Day, a date chosen to raise awareness of how NHPI women experience wage gaps and the impact on communities. NOW members are highlighting the pay disparities different communities face, and the institutional barriers that prevent women from achieving equal pay and better Read more …
Released on August 12, 2025
Donald Trump doesn’t believe in democracy for all—far from it. Like the authoritarians he admires, he wants to pick who gets have their rights protected, and who sees them taken away. Now, he’s using America’s military as his private plaything to enact his twisted agenda, crack down on peaceful demonstrations, intimidate ordinary citizens and persecute Read more …
Released on August 11, 2025
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 …
Released on July 28, 2025
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 …
Released on July 21, 2025
This month marks 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, protecting the rights of people with disabilities against employment discrimination, while fostering inclusion in society. The goal was also to expand access to all levels of government, public establishments, transportation and communication, opening doors that Read more …
