Montgomery County (MC) NOW is the Montgomery County, Maryland Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Adjacent to Washington, DC, Montgomery County is Maryland's most populous jurisdiction. MCNOW is dedicated to education and activism for women's rights.

FOR CANDIDATES: MCNOW endorsement questionnaire

FOR VOTERS: MCNOW list of endorsed candidates

Raise Your Voice and Support CEDAW

Please ask President Obama to make CEDAW: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women a priority: CEDAW - Write and Be Counted `

Montgomery County NOW in the news:

• Group Protests Judge's Sentence Reduction for Child Rapist, MSNBC
• VIDEO: NOW Protests Judge Over Rapist's Sentence, NBC Washington
• PRESS RELEASE: MCNOW to Hold Protest Against Weak Sentencing for Child Rapist May 18th at 12 Noon
• Read the May 16, 2010, editorial in The Washington Post: Montgomery County judge goes easy on child sex offenders

Standing Features

From NOW On, the MCNOW Newsletter: The June 2010 issue is online

Calendar of Events

MCNOW in Focus

The Watchful Eye, the newsletter of the Montgomery County Chapter of the National Organization for Women’s Sexualization of Girls Project

• May 2010
• April 2010
• March 2010
• Selected Articles from The Watchful Eye, the newsletter of MCNOW's Sexualization of Girls Project
  • Why Am I Getting This? Editor's Introduction to the Newsletter
  • Sexualization: Yes, But What Does It Mean? A Sociologist's View 
  • Sexualization of Girls: Why It Matters
  • Summary of the American Psychological Association report, "The Sexualization of Girls"

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