The first gathering devoted to women’s rights took place …show more content…
In the 2014 documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, early NOW member Jacqui Ceballos commented that when the organization was just beginning, the women involved mainly focused on job and education inequalities and the wage gap. According to Ceballos, they educated women on how to fight discrimination in the workplace, as well as how to sue their own companies for discrimination. Since NOW has been founded, “The Foundation works to enhance the status of women in the United States and around the world through many strategies, including advocacy, litigation, and education. The litigation efforts of the Foundation seek to protect reproductive health options, as well as focusing on other areas of concern to women, such as pregnancy discrimination, employment issues, discrimination against women in the military, sexual harassment and exploitation, lesbian and gay rights, civil rights, sex discrimination in insurance, and ending violence against women” (“Foundation Mission Statement”). Clearly, the organization focuses on much different topics today, but it is important to note that NOW is still standing strong, and with over 500,000 members all across the country, it is the largest feminist organization in the United States (now.org)