How Gloria Steinem’s lifechanging stay in India shaped her approach to feminism
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The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’ ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes Gloria Steinem: A life in pictures When Gloria Steinem ’s plane touched down in Bombay in 1957, she could not have known that her stay in India w
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The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’ ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes Gloria Steinem: A life in pictures When Gloria Steinem ’s plane touched down in Bombay in 1957, she could not have known that her stay in India would become what she later called a “pivotal, life-dividing event [that] made me who I am”.
She was 22, with a degree in government from Smith college and was travelling on a Chester Bowles fellowship. Continue reading...
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