Women’s Week: Gloria Steinem

The Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women (PCUW) presents a keynote address by Gloria Steinem, Is Feminism Still Relevant? as the keynote address of the 2006 Women’s Week: The Feminist Future.

Gloria Steinem is an internationally recognized author, editor and feminist activist. She co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, and helped to found New York magazine, where she was a featured political columnist. Ms. Steinem also helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance and the National Women’s Political Caucus, among numerous other political committees and organizations. She founded Take Our Daughters to Work Day, and is currently working on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement.

The address will be February 23 in Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, at 7:30 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by the Women’s Week Afterparty! in Café 58, Irvine Auditorium, sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers.

For a list of the Third Annual Women’s Week events, see www.pcuw.org or the Update.