Gloria Steinem By Sean Santerre

Young Now

 Born in Toledo, Ohio on March 25, 1934  Lived and Traveled in a trailer that her father used for his work as a traveling antiques dealer  Mother and Father divorced in 1944 and she continued to live with her mother  Her mother could not keep a job and often hated the working women  Attended Waite High School in Toledo and Western High School in Washington D.C. Early Life

 Attended Smith College  Late 1950s she spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow  Served as a director of the Independent Research Service that worked under the CIA  Worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival  Hired by Warren Publishing as the first employee of “Help!” magazine Early Life

 Steinem fought for the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970  Fought for many other laws and social reforms that promoted equality between both women and men  Wanted to strike down many sex discriminatory sex laws that gave men superior rights in marriage and denied women equal economic opportunities Context

 Founded many groups such as:  Women’s Action Alliance  Coalition of Labor Union Women  Ms. Foundation for Women  Choice USA  Women’s Media Center Action

 Presented her impassioned Senate testimony in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1970  Essay on a utopia of equality – “What It Would Be Like If Women Win” in Time Magazine  led the New York City march of the nation-wide Women’s Strike for Equality  Appeared on news shows, television talk shows, and on the covers of newspapers and magazines such as Newsweek, Time, etc… Action

 “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”  Inequality between men and women  Need to restructure the way society and the minds of the people have viewed women for many years  Female oppression is a part of America’s cultural history Quote

 Nationally recognized American Feminist, journalist and social and political activist  Recognized as the leader and icon of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s  Attracted many new modern Feminist such as Betty Friedan and allowed for feminist action  Inspiration to women everywhere as the leading media spokeswoman for the woman’s liberation movement Legacy

 "Gloria Steinem." The Official Website of Author and Activist. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Mar  "Gloria Steinem." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 Mar Web. 05 Mar Works Cited