behind the headlines what gloria steinem says sexual assault can be eliminated. [♪] >> hello i'm bonnierbe welcome to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends. up first, women, children and immigration. supporters of president obama's executive order on immigration say it honors american values by keeping more families together. opponents say it's unfairly being imposed without bipartisan support. according to the migration policy institute about one-third of immigrants illegally in the u.s. live with a child who is a u.s. citizen. the president's order could shield five million people most of them women and children from deportation. four million immigrants with no criminal records will be able to work legally in the country. also included, is an expansion of the dreamers program for young immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. however, their parents get no protection. critics on the left is say the order doesn't go far enough and critics on the right are promising to take their own action. is this a family preservation bill action, rather as the president says it is?

. >> gloria steinem was a reporter and a very pretty one.he playboy club. >> i remember the young woman who took my false bio. i had said that i was a secretary, and thought being a bunny would be more exciting. and she leaned forward and whispered to me. she said, "honey, if you can type, you don't want to work here." >> bunnies are forbidden to wear jewelry, pale lipstick or gold or green nail varnish. the provocative cottontail must be clean and sparkling. >> gloria revealed how they were paid and how they were running around in a club with their breasts exposed and a tail on their butt and with men sort of snapping the napkin at them as they walked by. and so, through her reporting, she was showing sexism in all its different flavors. >> that assignment, it was not a great experience. but in retrospect, i'm glad i did it because i got a notice from hugh hefner. and they did change the working conditions of those women for the better. >> gloria steinem challenged every stereotype of a feminist. >> she was this fabulous looking incredibly

gloria steinem picked wonder woman to be a the cover girl on the first issue. and recalling smith ruled that she felt pain she first encountered that princess from her sheltered thailand to help america in world war ii. in her new book she argues the heroin was the missing link in american feminism and as she explored she unpacks as a chapter of american history. her book tells the story about wonder woman's creator and the secret life he shared with his wife and the younger woman the abandonment of conventional identities to lead to wonder woman's creation. we will hear about that and much more than not on the overflows with ideas but as reseed and improbable and filled with curious devices as an episode of the comic book itself. jill is one of the most esteemed and essayist harvard professor and a new yorker staff writer who works frequently explores chapters of american history for evidence of the historical record. among the of many books is the life and opinions of james franklin the youngest sister of the founding father of a hard-working woman that conta

in these situations i want gloria steinem on speed dial.sm, women's rights, equals human rights. i don't understand how it becomes this complicated political minefield to navigate. feminism, women's rights, equals human rights. it's about equality. they need an education about that. >> i think celebrities don't know what feminism actually means and they're afraid of it because it comes across as us versus them. i think when somebody says they are feminist, they're judged more harshly. like beyonce, talking about feminism in one of her songs, they were saying she didn't uphold the feminist morals and she was twerk. so i guess you can't twerk when you're a feminist. >> that is not a rule. you can twerk when you're a feminist. >> a lot of people are offended. >> the bottom line here, feminism means that you think that women are people deserving of equal rights and if you agree with what i just said, then you are a feminist. so the attacks on the word and sort of the miss interpretation of what it actually means is deliberate. and it's anti-fem

gloria stein hham, a friend of e show, has a piece up right now remember harriette woods from 1982 in which she facedon danforth. her campaign slogan, give him hell, harry yet. steinem0,000 votes out of more than 1.5 million. harriet woods funded emily's list. steinem focuses on what it might have been had harriet got 30,000 votes because when john danforth took with him back to senate took a rare african-american clarence thomas who went on to be appointed to lead equal opportunity employment commission. steinem writes in clarence thomas hadn't headed the eeoc he couldn't have dismantled the class action or been appointed to the d.c. court of appeals. if he wasn't appointed as a judge, george w.h. bush wouldn't have nominated him to replace thurgood marshall. if he hadn't been confirmed by senate judicial committee after narrowly surviving accusations of anita hill, he wouldn't have been nominated to supreme court. if he wasn't on the supreme court he wouldn't have had the one-vote margin halting recount vote in florida. with all the implications for everything from iraq to action or inaction on global warming. harriet woods went on to be the first and only lieuten