Akron Area NOW-National Organization for Women

09/06/2024

With several awards and nominations to her name, writer, director, and producer Ava DuVernay has been selected as honorary chair for Banned Books Week 2024, which takes place September 22 - 28. We are proud to announce our honorary chair, award-winning filmmaker & advocate AVA DUVERNAY! She is joine...

09/22/2018

Trump's change in tone — and apparent shift in tactics — came as Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers negotiated with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terms for her possible testimony next week in a dramatic showdown over her accusation that threatens Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.

07/10/2018

07/10/2018

President Trump just nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court -- but Kavanaugh's views don’t represent the majority of people in this country. Confirming him to the Supreme Court would shift the balance of the court to the extreme, threatening the rights of a generation.

06/26/2018

Tuesday's "Equal Pay Day" is the perfect time to draw attention to President Trump's move to rollback protections for women workers, activists say.

04/27/2018

03/02/2018

The U.S. Senate Tells Women—Having a Baby? Forget About Doing Your Job
Statement by NOW President Toni Van Pelt

March 1, 2018

Washington, DC - Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-HI) will soon be the first U.S. Senator in history to give birth while in office. But under Senate rules, if Sen. Duckworth takes any maternity leave, she will be unable to perform the most essential aspects of her job—voting and sponsoring legislation.

And if she’s not on leave, Sen. Duckworth will miss votes when she’s breastfeeding because the Senate rules deny floor privileges to family members, and nursing infants are considered family members. These are patriarchal and patently unfair rules and certainly do not reflect family values.

Is the U.S. Senate stuck in the 50’s—the 1850’s?

News flash for Mitch McConnell--you can’t put the “no girls allowed” sign back up in the Senate. Modernize the rules to allow women to work while caring for their children.

But even as important, do something for all the working women—particularly for women who work in low-wage jobs, predominantly women of color, who urgently need workplaces that provide reasonable accommodations for working mothers. This is your chance to provide family friendly workplaces, and exhibit true American family values.

03/02/2018

A s*x trafficking ring that operated in Ohio and Indiana targeted vulnerable teenage girls and exploited them, federal investigators say. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the operation ran from late 2015 to 2016. The case began in December 2015, when the Lima Police Department investigated a...

02/19/2018

02/19/2018

Officials say that a quick-thinking airline employee, aptly named Denice Miracle, likely saved two teenage girls from being sold into human trafficking.