CEDAW

CEDAW It’s called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and it was adopted at the 1979 U.N. Decade for Women Mid-Decade Conference in Copenhagen. The Convention or CEDAW, as it’s known, is an international Bill of...

New Directions TV Shows

Morris County NOW proudly announces… All editions of our TV show, New Directions for Women, will be archived in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they will be available to historians, scholars and students in...

Local News from Patch

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Racial Justice

NOW condemns the racism that inflicts a double burden of race and sex discrimination on women of color. Seeing human rights as indivisible, we are committed to identifying and fighting against those barriers to equality and justice that are imposed by racism. A leader...

Constitutional Equality

Equality in pay, job opportunities, political structure, social security and education will remain an elusive dream without a guarantee of equality in the U.S. Constitution. The progress we have made — and must continue to make — towards women’s equality can be lost...