thank you thank you absolutely appreciate it now for more on this i want to turn things over to gloria steinem author activist and co-author co-founder of the women's media center gloria welcome thank you why are you supporting the chicago teachers in the union strike. because i am empathetic witness i have no role in this strike it's a democratic mayor you know but it is so overwhelmingly clear that these teachers have been taking it on the chin for twenty five years working in schools without enough heat with asbestos with not enough textbooks with social workers do you know that there's a thousand students per social worker if they need to so it is outrageous what's been going on and it is now especially outrageous that the mayor has the chutzpah. to. say that this is selfish on the part of the teachers it is simply outrageous he says he has no money but in fact it doesn't seem to be true because he gives it to the police department even though they didn't ask for it he gave seventy million dollars for charter schools even though the independent stanford report made clear that charter schoo

tell my story to gloria steinem. at the time, i was teaching at rutgers. someone read this letter and she said, that is wrong. that het you suggest contact the american civil used liberties union. that is how we started this case in the district court. it was not a question of putting on evidence. the facts undisputed. arguing the point that this law, which was described as beneficial to when and -- to win that all such laws, the root of the discrimination is against the women. but he paid social security taxes just like the rest of us. they did not gain for family the same protection as the family of a male wager. the discrimination begins with the woman and then the man because he is the role of parent rather than breadwinner. does not get the benefits. there was a unanimous judgment of the supreme court in that case. we got it from the district course to the supreme court before he reached his third birthday. that is record speed. the accord reached a unanimous judgment, but divided three ways. -- the court reached a unanimous judgment, but divided free

weeks ago, "lots of candles, plenty of cake," you talk about feminism today, and you talk about gloria steinem, betty friedan and female impersonators. how do you feel about feminism today? >> guest: oh, great, it's so great. people will say to me, who's the next gloria? who's the next person writing the feminine mystique? and i have to keep saying over and over again, this is what happens to social movements when they're successful. they become absorbed by the culture. so the fact that, as i say in the book, my daughter maria who's now 23 once said to me, has a man ever been secretary of state, shows how radically the world has changed during my lifetime. because all she'd seen, she hadn't quite internalized colin powell, but she had madeleine albright, condoleezza rice and hillary clinton. so i think the expectations we have for our daughters and for women in the world have changed so much. is everything fixed? absolutely not. do we still have a long way to go? absolutely. is the world for my daughter a completely different world in certain ways than it was for me growing up? there's no doub

tell my story to gloria steinem. at the time, i was teaching at rutgers. the state university of new jersey. someone read this letter and she said, that is wrong. n't it? why don't you suggest that he contact the american civil used liberties union. that is how we started this case in the district court. it was not a question of putting on evidence. the facts undisputed. arguing the point that this law, which was described as beneficial to women, that all such laws, the root of the discrimination is against the women. but he paid social security taxes just like the rest of us. they did not gain for family the same protection as the family of a male wager. -- wage earner. the discrimination begins with the woman and then the man because he is the role of parent rather than breadwinner. does not get the benefits. there was a unanimous judgment of the supreme court in that case. and by the way, we got it from the district course to the supreme court before he reached his third birthday. that is record speed. for federal litigation. the court reached a unanimo