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Regional Chapters of NOMAS

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

NOMAS is committed to supporting local chapters. According to the NOMAS bylaws, four NOMAS members are needed to found a new chapter. NOMAS chapters organize their own programs and are trusted to abide and uphold the NOMAS principles and tenets.Member chapters and affiliates report to the national council at least twice a year on local [...]

How We Got Started

Friday, September 24th, 2010

The National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) began as a spontaneous, loose-knit social movement in the early 1970s. With the beginning of the second wave of American feminism in the late 1960s, “anti-sexist” men’s groups, men’s articles, and other writing about pro-feminist men began to appear. In 1975, a group of men who were [...]