How Gloria Steinem’s lifechanging stay in India shaped her approach to feminism

The activist said her two years studying and travelling in country ‘made me who I am’

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When Gloria Steinem’s plane touched down in Bombay in 1957, she could not have known that her stay in India would become what she later called a “pivotal, life-dividing event [that] made me who I am”.

She was 22, with a degree in government from Smith college and was travelling on a Chester Bowles fellowship.