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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]
The National Organization for Women's Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion was created by feminist theologian Elizabeth Farians. [1] The group played an important role in the creation of a Catholic feminist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s and worked for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Mary Alexander "Molly" Yard (July 6, 1912 – September 21, 2005) [1] was an American feminist and social activist who served as the eighth president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1987 to 1991 and was a link between first and second-wave feminism.
Eleanor Marie Smeal (née Cutri; born July 30, 1939) is an American women's rights activist.She is the president and a cofounder of the Feminist Majority Foundation (founded in 1987) and has served as president of the National Organization for Women for three terms, in addition to her work as an activist, grassroots organizer, lobbyist, and political analyst.
Kathleen Marie Kelly (born 1980 or 1981) [1] is an American activist, human rights lawyer, and Mormon feminist who founded Ordain Women, an organization advocating for the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Kelly was excommunicated from the church in 2014. [2]
Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [ 1 ] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .
Knowing that ignorance of the law was a disadvantage, she immediately began law school and performing volunteer work for the National Organization for Women (NOW). [6] [7] She moved to Washington, DC, as an elected officer of NOW. Ireland advocated extensively for the rights of poor women, gays and lesbians, and African-American women.
The Rev. Becca Stevens, founder of Magdalene House Nashville and Thistle Farms, recently toured the network's new OKC residential program for women.