Gloria Steinem Quotes
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).
Steinem, Gloria. Moving Beyond Words. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
This relatively radical viewpoint regarding equal rights for women was expressed by Roosevelt as his Senior thesis at Harvard in 1880. In those days, the kind of scrutiny of everything a candidate ever wrote or said that is characteristic of modern politics, did not exist. It is very doubtful that if the Republican Party officials had ever known that he had espoused these views—even as a young student, that he ever would have risen so high in the party, much less get nominated at the Vice Presidential candidate which was his entree to the Presidency. When in office however, there is no record of him reviving his youthful proposal that women who marry retain their maiden names.
Ironically, she was views by most Americans as an ideal wife, mother and first lady and yet she led a life of anything but that. She was a working and very successful photographer and journalist before marrying JFK. In the White House she played many successful non-traditional roles including acting as the interpreter when JFK and French President De Gaulle met in summit.
Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
