Betty Friedan and other feminist leaders founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. Many of the members had worked in the Civil Rights Movement and had referred to what they wanted from NOW as a kind of “NAACP, but for women.”
NOW set up task forces on issues of women’s equality. The seven original NOW task forces were:
Education was one of the most important issues for the founders of NOW.
This issue was central to the creation of NOW.
NOW has been at the forefront of many legal battles.
Members of NOW wanted to address the economic concerns of women.
Family concerns have always been a part of feminism.
Feminists paid a lot of attention to media portrayal of women.
Several theologians took part in NOW and contributed to feminist theory.
