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The South Palm Beach county chapter of NOW was started by local activists and professors from Florida Atlantic University in 1972. We recently have developed a new coalition. FAU Women’s Studies Department has created a Friends Association of students, alumni, professors and supporters. Our NOW chapter has become an active “friend” as has the Feminist Scholarship Fund which awarded scholarships this year to three graduate students in Women’s Studies, We will be co-sponsoring Women’s Equality Day on August 26th to celebrate women’s voting rights resulting from the passage of the 19th constitutional amendment granting women suffrage.

 

We will be joined by many other groups including members of W.A.P.A., the Women’s Alliance for Political Action. W.A.P.A. includes Planned Parenthood, NOW, FACTs, AAUW, Hadassah, League of Women Voters and National Council of Jewish Women. In the past NOW and others have hosted candidate forums where we ask question on issues that are particularly pertinent to women’s lives. Candidates are very interested in receiving the endorsement of NOW-PAC our political action committee because they know that we educate our members on our endorsements and they vote.

 

Since NOW is the largest comprehensive women’s rights group in America with over 500,000 members, we form coalitions with other organizations that also work for reproductive, health, education, economic, older women, child care rights and against sexual harassment, violence and discrimination based on sexual or gender orientation.

 

Founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinam and others as a civil rights organization for women, our members are involved in every issue relating to full equality for women in our society. And WE VOTE!     

 

Sheila Jaffe

President