NOW won a lawsuit that forced the huge California State University system to provide equal sports programs for women and men. NOW gave strong support to a Salt Lake City student who faced national media scrutiny and a local backlash when she tried to start a lesbian and gay support group in her high school. Young feminists are starting NOW chapters in high schools, colleges and communities nationwide. Others are taking leadership in existing NOW chapters or through NOW's National Young Feminist Committee. Young feminist issues are as varied as the women who confront them.
Young feminists have all kinds of social, economic, racial, ethnic, sexual and religious identities.
No particular age bracket defines us. Yet we have a lot in common. We were shaped by a world where feminism had already left its impressions. We have come of age during the era of backlash. Some gains, like reproductive rights, are under attack.