European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Wom the a Toto Smitm top left with Patricia carbine co founder of a. Magat lne and with her Book Marilyn right. He you to photo Gloria Steinem letting women Tell the truth to each other by Vera Haller Assoofi ated press Loria Steinem was a Young Deo Lance Imler when she became a Playboy Bunny Tor show Magazine and turned her experience Inlo a dryly humorous expose of the rituals in rabbi Dom. The article published in 1963 created a Public sensation and some personal misgivings. The minute that appeared it was much harder to be taken seriously she says it was areal career error of Gigantic proportions because i was just barely beginning to gel some serious journalistic assignments which was very hard Lor a woman at that Point for Many years i regretted doing it Steinem said but with the Advance of the women s movement she began to accept the Validity of the article ii was t until 69 or 70 thai thanks to feminism. I realized that this was a worthy subject that these women arb waitresses and sex of Els and All women Are waitresses to some  she said it was Worth the  since then Steinem has emerged As one of the major forces in the women s movement but she says the role was not one of her Early ambitions i was already in the Media when inc movement came along it was n sort of Icci Lenl. I just happened Loho there she said i win writ mrs Iti Oul and reporting on what women were doing thai  anal is my 0b " St incr is celeb Ratiu a Milestone in  cure i inc 15th anniversary it is. Ii women s Mao i ii she co founded together with f ii trn i Taino and still coils inn Brj an interview at Itic nud town new Yolk Olliges of i Slemc coked Hack in inc Magazine s strut Jalcs and successes  of which reflect Hosi of the we Man s movement i suppose we Are a i  in cd a anybody that it s lasted Lor 15   r,.ni people kept tilling us thai it would never last. Month at inc most " she credited the Marj i Ine s vitality loss Reader it s inc re built of lolling worn ii it la the Rulh it each of her and not pretending that we re All while Skinny. Beautiful thai we re Only Inlo Mitch in 101 different ways to Cook hamburger  superwoman or  so Mem said the idea Lor a fam miss m.irjn7ine came Aboul in Iho Lale 1960s when she Wai a corking As n free tar co writer Lor such magazines As new to k. Clamp it and Mccatty s. She said she and Many of her female colleagues were frustrated because editors rarely allowed them to write Ghoul women s issues. So i Star cd logo out and speak women were us so relieved and cheered to hear thai they were not Iho Only ones feeling Gomel Henrj was wrong she said finding Mancial backing for the Magazine venture was difficult help finally came from Clay Felker. Ihen editor of new York Magazine who used a portion of the new Magazine As a supplement for his publication since Ihnn the ill hence of is has been Tell to Many ways. Slain Essaid Ana Liole Ami the movie. Cagney and Laccy. Helped in Ioconio a television series and Short essay on Sheila Tobias who named and wrote about Ralh anxiety prompted i Mosij of oilers. Tobias then Wale a Book and  several math anxiety clinics. Steinem says the Magazino is taking a now direction As the women i Rove men develops for the first Many Many yeas when the women s movement was really a sch Jacci of a Ditulo when people were saying. You re All Bia Burnero and All thai we had to work very hard to be taken  she said. We were still having to prove ital women were being discriminated  some of the issues Hal the Magazine tackled were abortion equal pay Lor equal work battered wives and redefining the role of women in the family but in general now. There is a Public majority acceptance that women afe i Acuminate against and if s  Steinem said it s More Lun editorially because we can report on solutions " is will reflect these changes beginning m september when its formal changes. The Magazine will have features on lifestyle trends. Trave and health and will include Short articles in addition to its usual Long in depth stories. Steinem teels that there is still much to be accomplished in the women s movement the structural change has just begun. Wherever you look the problems Are slut there she said i hunk parenthood and children has finally come to the top of the National Agenda because women have flooded into Iho paid labor Force but men have not hooded info the unpaid labor Force. The reproductive issues came full because they Alfe cled Ell women the child rearing issues came next because they Al Lect the next most she said. Although she has lobbied a densely on child rearing issues and for equally Between husbands and wives Steinem never married or had children. It was a series of decisions. Assumed 1 had o get married because in the 50s and 60s everybody go married she said. Manage was presented to us As sort of the end nol the beginning from there on you have to move when you re husband does and Lake on his social identity. So i though not right now Bui then the women s movement came along and this revolutionary idea thai everybody did t have 10 get married Steinem said you had a Choice and i discovered i was quite Happy wednesday August 19,19b7 the stars and stripes Page 13