National Organization for Women

noun

1. a women's rights organization founded in 1966.

National Organization for Women

1. A major feminist organization, founded in the middle 1960s, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to enforce a clause in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender. One of its founders was Betty Friedan . NOW has worked to promote occupational opportunities for women and has supported legislative proposals that would guarantee women equality with men.