NOW is a multi-issue political organization. NOW's self-defined role has been to initiate change for the benefit of the greatest number of people, to affect the legal and institutional structures of our society in a way that systematically expands the choices and possibilities available to all women. In this way, NOW takes action to bring women as a class into the mainstream of society (rather than offering aid to individual women in achieving personal solutions or temporary relief from oppression), exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in true partnership with men.