Today, Aileen Hernandez announced her resignation from the EEOC effective November 10th of this year, citing frustrations “over the inaction on this issue [Menglekoch case, in which flight attendants filed against sex discrimination in the industry] and other cases which had drifted on for more than a year in spite of time requirements of Title […]
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Just a few days shy of her 80th birthday, Margaret Sanger passed away in Tucson today. NOW celebrates her life and her championing of birth control. We will continue the crusade! The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was created by the Civil Rights Act to implement Title VII of the act, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, religion, color, sex, or national origin. However, the EEOC recently stated it had no authority to rule on conflict between Title VII and state protective legislation; this […] A poll by the Field Research Corporation found that 65% of the population favored liberalizing abortion laws, while only 25% are in favor of very restrictive laws. NOW is on board! Stay tuned for future action! (06/28-29/66) At the Third Annual Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., the failure of the EEOC to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prompted the formation of NOW. Twenty-eight women contributed $5 each to help fund its organization: Ada Allness, Mary Evelyn Benbow, Gene Boyer, Analoyce Clapp, Kathryn […] NOW attorney, Faith Seidenberg, filed suit against McSorley’s Ale House, asserting women’s right to public accommodations. Stand with NOW for women’s equality! The EEOC issued guidelines declaring that state protective laws that applied only to women were in direct violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This is a complete reversal of their original position on this conflict in which they declared that they did not have the authority to rule on state protective laws […] |
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