NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund
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National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund
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NOW LDEF
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National Organization for Women. Legal Defense & Education Fund
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The National Organization for Women Legal Defense & Education Fund was established in 1970 as a "public service organization dedicated to achieving equality for women and girls." LDEF has focused its efforts on gaining legal rights for women in educational and employment opportunity, cases of physical abuse and sexual harassment, and in marriage and divorce laws. During the 1970s, it campaigned for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. NOW LDEF has sponsored the Women's Media Project, the Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, the Women's Economic Rights Project, and the Family Law Project.
The National Organization for Women Legal Defense and Education Fund was established in 1970 as "a public service organization dedicated to achieving equality for women and girls." LDEF has focused its efforts on gaining legal rights for women in educational and employment opportunity, cases of physical abuse and sexual harassment, and in marriage and divorce laws. During the 1970s, it campaigned for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
NOW LDEF was established in 1970 as "a public service organization dedicated to achieving equality for women and girls." It functions as the education and litigation arm of the National Organization for Women, providing legal assistance to women and educating the public on gender discrimination and other equal rights issues. Its purpose is to combat, by legal action and educational and community-based projects, discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin. NOW LDEF has sponsored the Women's Media Project, the Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER), the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, the Women's Economic Rights Project, and the Family Law Project.
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Abortion
Abortion services
Abused women
AIDS (Disease)
Broadcasters
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Collective bargaining
Courts
Divorced women
Educational law and legislation
Educational law and legislation
Equal rights amendments
Fatherhood
Incest
Journalists
Judges
Lawyers
Lesbians
Marriage
Maternity leave
Motherhood
Newspaper editors
Pay equity
Poor women
Pro-choice movement
Pro-life movement
Rape
Rape
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in education
Sex discrimination in education
Sex discrimination in employment
Sex discrimination in employment
Sex discrimination in insurance
Sex discrimination in justice administration
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment
Surrogate motherhood
Surrogate motherhood
Teenage mothers
Teenage mothers
Trials (Child sexual abuse)
Trials (Rape)
United States. Education Amendments. Title IX
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women alcoholics
Women alcoholics
Women broadcasters
Women broadcasters
Women in community organization
Women in community organization
Women in politics
Women journalists
Women journalists
Women judges
Women lawyers
Women lawyers
Women newspaper editors
Women newspaper editors
World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1985 : Nairobi, Kenya)
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United States
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New York (State)--New York
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