Gloria Steinem Instagram – It’s time that we choose our leaders from the whole population, not just half of it. I ran as a delegate for Shirley Chisholm when she ran for President in 1972. 100 years before that, the first woman Presidential candidate was Victoria Woodhull. And centuries before that, the people who lived here before Europeans showed up often had a more egalitarian system in which the leader was male, but a Council of Grandmothers appointed him and could replace him. Maybe we are just beginning to regain the equality that was already here. For instance, the suffragists gained their courage from Native American women who were their neighbors.
For the last installment of my Substack series of political writings, I am sharing a piece I wrote in 1970 called “What It Would Be Like If Women Win.” You can read it at the link in my bio.
Photo: National Organization for Women’s March for Women’s Lives on April 5, 1992 in Washington DC. Unknown photographer. From the archive of @gloriasfoundation | Posted on 05/Nov/2024 20:30:00
