After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn't do very much to enforce equality for women under Title VII,"in 1966, at the Third Annual Conference on the Status of Women in Washington, D. C., a group of 28 women formed an organization to fight for women's rights. They called it the National Organization for Women (NOW). By the end of the year, NOW had 300 members; by the end of the century it would have half a million" (Tina Gianoulis).