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Part One of The Current

Satire

It's Wednesday, September 28th.

The Conservative government is severely restricting the amount of debate on its omnibus crime bill.

In other words, a minimum of sentences on minimum sentences.

This is the Current.

Game Changer: Gloria Steinem

Before Gloria Steinem bought her first typewriter, some women probably wondered why they had to choose between a career and marriage. Some likely wondered why television shows were full of deferential housewives and why soap advertisements featured girls in bikinis. Some men likely wondered why they had greater legal rights in marriage. Some questioned why they had so few female work colleagues, and why the women weren't paid as much as the men.

But with her articles and books, Ms. Steinem forced those thoughts into the minds of an entire generation. Contraception, abortion, gay rights became proper topics for public discussion. She once wrote that "The plain truth is that nothing changes without change-makers."

And today, as part of The Current's Game Changer project, Gloria Steinem, a feminist, author and activist, joined us in our Toronto studio to talk about her historic contributions to change and what changes may come.

Related Archive Links:

• Single No More, and Still Wedded to the Cause By Robin Finn - NY times
• 'Feminism? It's hardly begun' By: Melissa Denes - The Guardian 2005
• Steinem's Story, for a New Generation By Elizabeth Jensen - NY Times
• AT HOME WITH Gloria Steinem; Decades as Icon; Now, Freedom By Molly O'Neill - NY Times
• Gloria Steinem, "Testimony before Senate Hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment" (May 6, 1970) By Jill Weber - Pennsylvania State University (PDF)
  

Other segments from today's show:

• Northern Gateway Pipeline
• The Story of Economic Genius: Sylvia Nasar