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8 unusual facts about National Organization for Women


Audrey Cohen

She was also a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Association of Higher Education, the National Vocational Guidance Association, and the National Organization for Women, and she was a member of numerous Boards of Directors.

Carole Migden

In 2001, Migden was named "Legislator of the Year" by the California National Organization for Women.

Elizabeth Fennema

In 1962 Kathryn Clarenbach (a founder of NOW) sent out a questionnaire inquiring of unemployed or underemployed wives of university professors who were interested in a career.

Louise Day Hicks

A member of the National Organization for Women, while in Congress Hicks lobbied for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Margaret Heckler

Heckler also lost the support of the National Organization for Women because she opposed federal funding for abortion.

Maryanne Connelly

Connelly was recognized by the National Organization for Women with a NOW Woman of Courage Award for the race.

Rod J. Rosenstein

Allen's nomination was opposed by the People for the American Way, the NAACP, and the National Organization for Women.

University Human Rights Centers

She was co-founder for the National Organization for Women and the country’s first black, female Episcopal priest.


Allen Bares

Such feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, successfully targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, fellow Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish, for defeat.

Bob Basker

As a fighter for civil rights, he was an active member of many organizations, including the National Organization for Women, the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, Veterans For Peace, and was a Charter Officer of the Alexander Hamilton Post #448 of the American Legion.

Bob Knepper

He generated controversy with his remarks about female umpire Pam Postema and the National Organization for Women in 1988.

Book Soup

When the National Organization for Women (NOW) strongly criticized Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, American Psycho, for glamorizing and condoning rape, Book Soup put fliers into its copies of the novel, blasting NOW for drawing attention to the book and disclaiming any approval of the novel's content.

Carl Gunter, Jr.

The National Organization for Women's national secretary, Kim Gandy, originally from Bossier City, directed a nine-month-long "grassroots organizing and recruiting effort" against the bill.

Gender segregation and Islam

In 1998 activists from the National Organization for Women picketed Unocal's Sugar Land, Texas office, arguing that its proposed pipeline through Afghanistan was collaborating with "gender apartheid".

J. Lomax Jordan

Feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, formerly of Bossier City, targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish for defeat.

Jane Briggs Hart

She was a founding member of the National Organization for Women, and served as board member and national convention delegate for the Birmingham, Michigan League of Women Voters.

Jill Johnston

The event was a vigorous debate on feminism with Norman Mailer, author; Germaine Greer, author; Diana Trilling, literary critic; and Jacqueline Ceballos, National Organization for Women president.

Karen DeCrow

DeCrow was elected President of the National Organization for Women from 1974 to 1977, during which time she led campaigns to ensure that collegiate sports would be included under the scope of Title IX, oversaw the opening of a new NOW Action Center in Washington, D.C. and the establishment of NOW's National Task Force on Battered Women/Household Violence, and participated in a tour of over 80 public debates with antifeminist activist Phyllis Schlafly over the Equal Rights Amendment.

LaDonna Harris

In the past, Harris served on the boards of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Independent Sector, Council on Foundations, National Organization for Women, National Urban League, Save the Children, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, and Overseas Development Corporation.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Many collections, such as the papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauli Murray, and the records of the National Organization for Women, feature political, organizational, and economic questions.

Sam H. Theriot

Such feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women, subsequently headed by the Louisiana native Kim Gandy, successfully targeted Bares and a pro-life House member, Democrat Carl Newton Gunter, Jr., of Rapides Parish, for defeat.

Separatist feminism

Cultural critic Alice Echols describes the emergence of a lesbian separatist movement as a response to what she sees as homophobic sentiments expressed by feminist organizations like the National Organization for Women.

Sisterhood is Powerful

The compilation included classic feminist essays by activists such as Naomi Weisstein, Lucinda Cisler, Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Flo Kennedy, Frances Beale, Jo Freeman and Mary Daly, as well as historical documents including the N.O.W. Bill of Rights, excerpts from the SCUM Manifesto, the Redstockings Manifesto, and historical documents from W.I.T.C.H.


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Lorena Weeks

She then met with Marguerite Rawalt who told her that the National Organization for Women would represent her for free.

Marie D. Kassing

Marie D. Kassing is one of the founders of the Women's Crisis Center in Salinas, California, a founder of the National Organization for Women in Monterey, CA and has won the 1995 Outstanding Woman Honoree award in Monterey County, California.

Richard Graham

Richard Alton Graham (1920–2007), founding officer of the National Organization for Women