To mark the beginning of Women’s History Month, From the Vault features a recording of Gloria Steinem, one of America’s best-known feminists. Through her writing and activism, and her work with Ms. Magazine (the international feminist bi-monthly that she co-founded in 1972), Steinem has created meaningful channels of communication around the world to champion women’s voices that call for recognition, equality, and justice – and she has remained committed to the creation of organizations that aim to widen and deepen opportunities, fairness and inclusion for women everywhere. In this 1997 recording from the Kennedy Lecture Series at Ohio University, Steinem explains the critical importance of patience and long-term goals for activists who have chosen to embrace the social and political struggles of feminism.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio listeners.
First broadcast on Friday, March 2, 2012.
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