Episode 34: We Demand Equality--NOW!

Political Junkie Podcast · Aug 18, 2023 · 42m

As we saw in the last episode, women were engaged in passionate activism to achieve gender equality by 1970. But unlike grassroots radical feminist groups, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other organizations like the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), had begun to look to state legislatures, Congress, and the courts to rectify the injustices women encountered every day in the workplace, as consumers, and in their homes. To demonstrate how much the nation depended on women, in contrast to how little they were valued, NOW asked women across the nation to…