Gloria Steinem Feminism

The Magazine in which this article was published is known as Ms. Magazine, and was co-created by Gloria Steinem as an insert of New York magazine in the early 70’s. it has been the voice of many feminists throughout the decades. In this article, Gloria Steinem calls to arms the feminists of today. She states that this era of feminism should not take up the mindset of “relax; feminism was their mothers’ movement.” (3) Her fear is, the women of the wave she was involved in will be rooted in the past, when they really need to be focused on the future. She stressed the fact that we need to be focused on fighting for the rights the feminists in the 60’s and 70’s fought so hard for.

In Steinem’s first point, she addresses the inequality of the workforce

One of the big issues she discusses is the divide between the cost of child care and the cost of college tuition. This is something that most of the population must deal with at some point in their lives. It is stated that “The average cost of child care here has surpassed the average cost of college tuition.” (5) Woman outnumber men on college campus’ now and Steinem mentions how women are welcome because they are consumers and it is only when they are ready to go out into the world that women aren’t respected as viable commodities of

Steinem brings up a startling statistic, “if you add up all of the women in the U.S. who have been murdered by their husbands or boyfriends since 9/11- and then add up all the Americans killed in 9/11 plus the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan- many more women have been murdered by their husbands or boyfriends.” There will be no hope for American society if society does not begin to look to the problems of its own and start to fix them; the issues on foreign soil seems to be of more importance to the American people then that of domestic terrorism.