National+Organization+of+Women


 * N.O.W. (National Organization of Women)**
 * largest feminist advocacy group
 * over 500,000 contributing members
 * NOW was founded in 1966 by several people
 * the founders are Gene Boyer, Kathryn Clarenbach, Inez Casiano, Mary Eastwood, Catherine East, Elizabeth Farians, Muriel Fox, Betty Friedan, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Richard Graham, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Aileen Hernandez, Phineas Murray, Pauli Murray, Marguerite Rawalt, Sister Mary Joel Read, Alice Rossi
 * NOW's statement of purpose is as follows: //“The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men//."
 * NOW promoted the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed that equal rights under any federal, state or local court could not be denied on account of sex
 * NOW wrote their own constitutional amendment entitled The Constitutional Equality Amendment (it has not been introduced to Congress) and it is as follows:
 * 1) Women and men shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place and entity subject to its jurisdiction; through this article, the subordination of women to men is abolished;
 * 2) All persons shall have equal rights and privileges without discrimination on account of sex, race, sexual orientation, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, color or indigence;
 * 3) This article prohibits pregnancy discrimination and guarantees the absolute right of a woman to make her own reproductive decisions including the termination of pregnancy;
 * 4) This article prohibits discrimination based upon characteristics unique to or stereotypes about any class protected under this article. This article also prohibits discrimination through the use of any facially neutral criteria which have a disparate impact based on membership in a class protected under this article.
 * 5) This article does not preclude any law, program or activity that would remedy the effects of discrimination and that is closely related to achieving such remedial purposes;
 * 6) This article shall be interpreted under the highest standard of judicial review;
 * 7) The United States and the several states shall guarantee the implementation and enforcement of this article
 * NOW has had many accomplishments over their more than forty years including countless protests, boycotts and strikes, establishment of women’s studies at universities, creation of rape crisis centers and other help centers, and thousands of rallies to raise money for important causes

Information found on http://www.now.org