we were running and he began telling me another boston marathon story. quit talking about the dawn marathon and run it. my dream then became to prove i could run 26 miles from 385 yards. for seven years the boston marathon have excluded women. but switzer entered using just for initials. >> we walked to the start and the gun went off and down the street we went. so there we were, arnie briggs, the 50-year-old mailman, and the 20-year-old college student, and my boyfriend tom miller, an all- american football player. when other runners would come by the would say, it is a girl. they were so excited. all of this sudden, the press truck is in front of us and they're taking pictures of us read on this truck was the race director, a feisty guy. he just stopped the bus, jumped off and ran after me. he grabbed me and screamed at me, get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers. he had the fiercest face of any guy i had ever seen. all of this session, big tom, my boyfriend, gave just the most incredible cross body block and sent him flying to the air and

and i often say that i started the boston marathon as a girl and i finished the boston marathon as a grown woman. a writer and actor and cofounder of ms. magazine she's been a leader of the women's movement for more than four decades. gloria steinem joins me now from new york. welcome to the program. i have to say as somebody who grew up alongside the women's movement, this is a really impressive film. why did you decide to get behind it to support it? >> well, we've only been getting a fraction of history as you and i understand. so i thought it was super important that people understand the incredible number and diversity of the women who composed the women's movement. it's not just three or four people. it's not about stars. it's about neighborhoods and as you just saw a woman running in a way that has allowed thousands, perhaps millions of women to enter races ever since. so you will meet all kinds of incredible heroins here that i inform us about history and most of us i hope inspire us to keep going. >> woodruff: as you say the film does feature some well known women. you are c

five years later women are allowed to run the boston marathon. 40 some years later women are at least half the entries in most of the marathons around the world. so i think it shows to me that once you document the history, then you know to your question of is the 2 1st century the century of women t might be because now that the attention is there and the resources are there and the access is there. >> it's contagious. we do what we see. not what we're told. >> and if we see that it's possible and we're not crazy tohinkhat the social order could be more equal, then we go forward. and that's what makers does. >> yeah. and it tells stories. >> yes. >> it's crucial, it's crucial, i think that it tells personal political, global stories. because our brains are organized on narrative,hi statistics, really don't mean that much to us. >> i introduced you as a new generation feminist. >> i'm getting older though. >> other than -- >> not compared to me. >> exactly. >> other than the fact of a history-- do you two from different generations share the same essential ideas about what the agenda

. >> that story, the first woman who ran in the boston marathon -- >> the woman who wanted to play inague or be a firefighter. >> or the woman who admits that she didn't think anyone else was being battered, only in her marriage was misery or abuse and miss magazine and recognizing that other people in the same mode empowered her and helped her believe differently about herself. >> we talked a lot when i was young how we had to get more women in positions of power. congress is doing far better than they were in the number of women although they are not all certainly progressive women. >> right. >> you also look at the equal pay. >> it's so crazy, chris. if women got equal pay, there would be more money pouring in to the economy because women are spending it on -- they are not saving it. they are spending it on -- the bottom line is, it's just and it's fair and that's why women should have equal pay. but the truth is also, it's good for men, it's good for families and good for the country. violence against women, the history that we in the women's movement and we started at a time when

who cheated in the boston marathon and proved even women can be cheats. >> kimberly: you are din minhments. >> greg: i'm not. >> kimberly: you are. you are a hater. >> greg: bring down the hype. i get first woman and everything, the stories that the media -- >> kimberly: under promise overdeliver. i get it. >> greg: the girl power. >> kimberly: tell us how you really feel. weird on that end of the table. >> andrea: do you think this makes history? a girl named lawrence silverman, 28 yearles old from new york city, she will be the first female to try out in this year's regional combine. in the national football league. >> kimberly: i'm excited. >> andrea: a kicker and very, very smart. she has her own company. club soccer player at the university of wisconsin. master's thesis from m.i.t. total stud. what do you think? >> kimberly: this is fantastic. >> greg: of course you do. >> kimberly: what is wrong with you? you are against women who are winners. >> greg: i love women who are winners. i find stories so funny. >> dana: you are going to be sent back to the greg room. >> kimberly: on

i'm more of a fan of rosy ruiz who cheated in the boston marathon. >> you're diminishing her accomplishment i'm not! >> you're a hater. >> i'm doing a this. let's bring the. hype down a little bit. i get it, first woman and everything. these are stories that the medii loves to do. >> underpromise, overdeliver. >> it's a big deal. all the u producers come up with the same idea, girl power. >> tallols how you really feel, greg. >> you're so weird on that end. >> let me see if this willwe get you. do you think this makes history? a girl named lauren silberman, 28 years old f new york city, she will be the first female to try out in this year's regional combine in the national football league, kimberly. >> yeah, i'm excited. >> she's a kicker and she's very, very smart. she has her own company. she was a o club soccer player b the university of wisconsin. she has a master's thesis from m.i.t. she's total stud. what do you think? >> i think it's fantastic. >> of course youo. do. >> what's wrong with>> you? you're against women that are winners. >> no, i love women who are winners! i find these s