[1] The group played an important role in the creation of a Catholic feminist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s and worked for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
[4] In the early years of NOW, the role of religion was emphasized as many activists identified as faith based feminists.
[10] Increasing leadership opportunities for women in religious communities was an important goal for the task force.
[11] One of the most well documented actions of the task force was 1969 protest against a church requirement that women wear hats during service.
[12] During what Elizabeth Farians referred to as the "national unveiling", women took off their head coverings at a church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.