California NOW
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Contact: president@canow.org
NOW chapters focus on six priority issues including reproductive rights, ending sex discrimination/constitutional equality, promoting diversity and ending racism, economic justice, stopping violence against women, and LGBTQIA rights. Our chapter welcomes new members to help fight for women's rights on the local and national level. The California National Organization for Women (CA NOW) is the largest state organization of feminists, both women and men, in the United States. The California National Organization for Women (CA NOW) is the largest state organization of feminists, both women and men, in the United States. California NOW embodies an intersectional analysis, recognizing the fact that perceived group membership can make people vulnerable to various forms of bias and because we are simultaneously members of many groups our complex identities can shape the specific way we each experience that bias. As a result, an intersectional approach goes beyond conventional analysis in order to focus our attention on injuries that we otherwise might not recognize. Intersectionality is thus a critical lens for bringing awareness and capacity to the social justice movement in order to expand and deepen its interventions in order to capture the interactive effects of race, gender, sexuality, class, etc. California NOW and the California NOW Foundation is working with our sister reproductive justice and social justice organizations to create, advocate, implement and monitor legislation that uses a woman centered human rights framework in advancing women and girls’ freedom and equality throughout society. California NOW was formed to take action to bring women into full participation in every aspect of American political, social and economic life and institutions. Full participation includes, but is not limited to, equal rights and responsibilities in all aspects of citizenship, public service, employment, education, and family life, and includes freedom from discrimination because of actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parenthood or any other category protected by federal and/or state laws.
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