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Budi

(15,325 posts) Fri Mar 26, 2021, 11:08 PM Mar 2021

An 87th birthday gift to EVERYONE 🌾 from Gloria Steinem - March 25th

Link to tweet

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-home-for-a-movement/jgIi1197UxiDIA

A Home For A Movement
Gloria invits us into her 'home', since 1966.
Take a tour of the life & history
(This is an incredible look thru time.)

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With Bella Abzug - 1974 Democratic Convention

Steinem:
"Patriarchy is what Feminism wants to eliminate.
Eliminating a system that puts men first and women second is better for everyone. Among many things, the patriarchy establishes that men are more capable and therefore responsible for providing for and protecting less-capable women.
It isn’t the moral responsibility of any man to protect and provide for women. Men and women should be able to fulfill any role they choose.
Our society will not collapse if women’s contributions are valued the same as men’s and if men don’t feel like they need to provide for women."

Gloria Steinem dedicated her entire career to gender equality activism.
Although women had won the right to vote decades earlier, in the 1960s and ’70s they still faced inequity in marriage, the workplace, and access to reproductive health, among many other forms of oppression.

Steinem challenged these manifestations of the patriarchy by openly discussing abortion when it was considered taboo, calling for the end of female objectification, and helping launch Ms. Magazine for women. She also paved the way for legislation that protects women against domestic violence and provides women with more control over their reproductive health.

We still have miles to go, and Steinem is still at the forefront of the Feminist movement.
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