“National Organization for Women” on The Daily Caller

The National Organization for Women’s “Lets talk about it” campaign to raise awareness about girls’ body image issues is a project of Love Your Body Day, October 19. And it has lots of people talking. (more)

Wal-Mart announced a multi-billion dollar initiative this week to promote women in the workplace in an effort to improve its image as a female-friendly company. Despite its efforts, the National Organization for Women (NOW) says the retail giant’s recent action does not make up for its past and current transgressions against women. (more)

One of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s major political opponents is defending her against what it says is blatant sexism on the part of Newsweek magazine. (more)

The feminist National Organization for Women (NOW) is concerned that without a significant amount of female leadership in the room, the debt deals currently in the works will disproportionately hurt women. (more)

Two years ago President Obama created a committee by executive order to advise and focus exclusively on the needs and welfare of the American woman. Feminists cheered the creation of a White House Council on Women and Girls but others questioned, why – when women and girls are outperforming men by nearly every empirical measurement – create a council for women but not for men? (more)

Despite being criticized and even rebuked by the National Organization for Women, HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher isn’t stopping with his slurs directed at female conservatives. And this time, he went after Sarah Palin once again. (more)

Just days after being sort of rebuked by the National Organization for Women, “Real Time” host Bill Maher isn’t backing away from his jokes about conservative women. (more)

When what could be considered misguided or inappropriate remarks are made about a liberal female public figure and a similar situation occurs with a conservative female public figure, Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and others have claimed there’s a perceived double standard as it pertains to the reaction from the media. (more)

I applaud Sarah Palin’s passion, her adroit sense of humor, and her you-go-girl! gumption. But the more I learn about Sarah Palin, the more I become perplexed by her over-heated gender-bending rhetoric. (more)

The National Organization for Women has filed a complaint against Hooters for being an improper dining venue for minors. (more)

As the Obama administration continues to work toward economic recovery, the Senate will be debating the Paycheck Fairness Act next week — a bill that the business community says is both unnecessary and sure to hurt job creation, but that others contend is necessary to ensure gender equity in the workplace. (more)

Winners and Losers (more)

Despite a sometimes-testy race for the Delaware Senate seat, Chris Coons has strongly condemned the Gawker.com article about his Republican opponent Christine O’Donnell. (more)

The National Organization for Women on Thursday condemned the tabloid website Gawker for publishing an anonymous account of a man’s sexual encounter three years ago with Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. (more)

The Independent Women’s Forum is calling Maureen Dowd a “mean girl,” in response to her New York Times column comparing female Republican candidates to characters from a Lindsay Lohan film about high-school cafeteria sniping. (more)

While some were offended when they heard California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown’s mistakenly recorded message in which a member of Brown’s campaign referred to his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman, as a “whore,” the National Organization for Women (NOW) apparently was not. Instead of rushing to decry the misogynistic language, NOW endorsed Brown — less than a day after the message hit the news-cycle. (more)

The president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) delivered 1,500 baby bottle tops — meant to represent “tits” — to Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson this morning as part of its “tits for an ass” campaign to have Simpson removed from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform — a commission established by the President Obama to study the federal deficit. (more)

If the women at the feminist group The New Agenda do not hear an apology soon from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his “sexist” comment, he will be facing more than just a few frowning fems. (more)

More than ninety years ago, American women earned the right to vote.  Since that time, American women have gained tremendous economic and political power.  Women’s record of educational achievement and innate strengths should translate into greater progress in years to come.  Yet women’s progress—like all Americans’ progress—is jeopardized by our growing, Leviathan government. (more)

Hugh Hefner roiled feminist sensibilities in a recent New York Daily News article this month in which he declared, “women are sex objects.” (more)