Mission:
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has half a million contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. NOW was founded in 1966, just three years after publication of Betty Friedan’s THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE. After the President’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women had shown overwhelming discrimination against women in all phases of life, women and men met in Washington, D.C. to organize in order to establish the required social changes, and started NOW with 28 members. Mid-Suffolk NOW is an outgrowth of the original Stony Brook University Campus Group, formed in the early 1970’s, which then became the Stony Brook Campus Committee of the newly formed NOW chapter.
