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Minutes of the National Organization for Women Conference The annual meeting of the National Organization for Women was held in the meeting rooms of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC, November 18, and 19, 1967. The meeting was called at 9:00 AM, Saturday, November 18, 1967, in the Chinese Room. President Betty […] At NOW’s second national conference on November 18th and 19th, the National Organization for Women adopted a Bill of Rights for Women which, among other things, calls on Congress to immediately pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and lists among its goals the repeal of all abortion laws and publicly-funded child care. NOW is now the […] On the 8th, President Johnson, signed into law Public Law 90-130, while retaining combat limitations, allows women in the Armed Forces equal promotion and retirement rights. This law also removed the 2% restriction on the number of women who could serve in the Armed Forces. Another step towards the equality of employment for women! On October 13, 1967, Presidential Executive Order 11375 amended Executive Order 11246 to prohibit sex discrimination in employment by the federal government and by contractors doing business with the government. A NOW victory!! Join NOW in this continued fight for equal employment opportunity for women! On September 17, 1967, the NOW Board of Directors, meeting in Madison, WI, voted unanimously to approve the formation of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF). Although the Legal Defense and Education fund has been founded by NOW leaders and will continue to collaborate with NOW on many feminist issues, the LDEF […] New York NOW picketed the New York Times to protest sex-segregation of job advertising. This first picket line for the New York Chapter was organized by Carol Perlys and Dolores Alexander. Dressed in old-fashioned costumes, the NOW demonstrators protested the old-fashioned policies of the Times. Leaflets explaining the protest were distributed. The demonstration was featured […] (07/30/67) NOW has filed the appeal in the case of Bowe v. Colgate Palmolive in which a group of women at the Colgate plant in Indiana were laid off when the company refused to permit them to exercise their seniority to claim jobs involving lifting beyond the state maximum of 35 pounds. A Federal District […] Colorado, North Carolina and California became the first states to liberalize their abortion laws, authorizing abortion when a pregnancy resulted from rape, incest, endangered a woman’s physical or mental health, or was likely to result in the birth of a child with severe mental or physical defects. The authorization provides that the abortion must occur […] On May 2nd and 3rd, EEOC hearings were held in Washington, D.C on protective labor legislation, sex-based discrimination in advertising and pension plans. These hearings are the result of the petition filed in December 1966 by the NOW Legal Committee, urging that the discriminatory guidelines on sex-segregated classified advertising in newspapers be rescinded, and that […] The NOW New York chapter filed a complaint with the New York Human Rights Commission today on the discriminatory effect of sex-segregated job advertising in newspapers. Continue to follow this news! |
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