Mission The National Organization for Women aims to take action to bring true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes.
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(09/05/68)
NOW sponsored a boycott of all Colgate-Palmolive products to protest the company’s long-standing fragrant discrimination against female employees. In addition to the usual separate seniority lists, unequal pay rates, and exclusion from promotion to better jobs on the grounds of “state protective legislation,” the company has been laying off women with more than twenty years seniority to hire men with no seniority in their places. We demonstrated for five days in front of the company’s New York City headquarters on Park Avenue. Anselma Dell’Olio and Barbara Love of New York NOW led the action with picket signs that read “Down the Drain With Ajax,” “The White Knight Is A Dirty Old Man” and “Cold Power Versus Woman Power.” One of the days featured a “flush in,” where New York NOW members poured Colgate products into a real toilet.
Everyone is urged not to buy any Colgate products. Let’s not contribute to our own oppression.
Members of NY NOW protested the New York Times for a week ending on the 26th. While protesting sex-segregated “help wanted” ads, supporters chanted “The New York Times is a sex-offender!”
 Ti-Grace Atkinson and Flo Kennedy picket the New York Times
Cred.: The Sisterhood by Marcia Cohen
(07/22-26/68)
Members of New York NOW again picketed the New York Times, this time for a week, urging the end of sex-segregated job advertising. They chanted: “The New York Times is a sex-offender!”
Ti-Grace Atkinson and Flo Kennedy picket the New York Times
Cred.: The Sisterhood by Marcia Cohen
Following an appeal filed by NOW attorneys Marguerite Rawalt and Phineas Indritz, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voided the state’s Muncy law which required longer prison sentences for women than for men convicted of the same crime.
One more step towards equality of the sexes! Stand with NOW!
NOW sends its deepest condolences and well-wishes to Andy Warhol, his friends and family. We denounce the actions of Valerie Solanas; she does not represent the women’s movement and she has no connection to the National Organization for Women. NOW has not and will never support the vilification of men nor the actions that may stem from such ideology. NOW supports a movement toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes.
The New York chapter of NOW demonstrated for the complete repeal of abortion laws today! Among the demonstrators was Kate Millett carrying a sign, “Nobody should legislate my rights to my body!”
Stand with NOW!
(02/29/68)
New York NOW demonstrated for abortion law repeal. Among the chapter demonstrators was Kate Millet carrying a sign that read, “Nobody should legislate my rights to my body.”
NOW attorney, Silvia Roberts, has taken on the case of L0rena Weeks v. Southern Bell, in which Weeks had been denied a promotion because of Georgia state law that prohibits women from lifting 30 pounds or more on the job. A victory in this case would set the precedent of using the Civil Rights Act to fight gender-based discrimination.
Stay tuned and stand with NOW!
Today, the EEOC finally ruled that sex is not a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) for the job of an airline flight attendant! A victory for the women of the airline industry!
(01/15/68)
EEOC hearings in New York City were picketed by New York NOW when NOW was refused permission to testify or take part in final round table discussion concerning “Discrimination in White Collar Employment” that included representatives from the finance, insurance, communications, banking industries and 100 major corporations with headquarters in New York City.
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