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The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. [5] It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. [6]
Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race (WISER), founded 2016; Women's Loyal National League, 1863–1864, organized to abolish slavery, first national women's political organization in the United States; Women's Missionary and Service Commission, name established 1955, attached to the Mennonite Church; Woman's Missionary Union
The National Organization for Women (NOW), was founded to fit that need. Clarenbach became the first chair of NOW. NOW's first action was to confront the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about their sexual discrimination. When they made their point, they received much support. NOW kept growing.
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded by conference attendees in October 1966, the first new feminist organization of the "second wave" of feminism. A former EEOC commissioner, Richard Graham , was on NOW's first board as a vice president.
In 1965–68, she and Senator Maurine Neuberger co-chaired then-vice president Hubert Humphrey's task force on Women's Goals. [2]In 1966, she co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), and she was NOW president Betty Friedan's main lieutenant and director of operations in its earliest years.
Anna Arnold Hedgeman not only helped found the National Organization for Women and advocated passionately for workplace justice, but she was the only woman on the committee that organized the 1963 March on Washington for racial equality.
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
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