The legacy of Gloria Steinem: A woman who mattered

Ten years ago, I had the honour of meeting Gloria Steinem. It was International Women’s Day 2016: Trump was a joke that would supposedly never happen and #MeToo was still two years away. Yet, the clouds were gathering. Being in the presence of Steinem, one of our greatest witnesses to a feminist revolution, was a stark reminder of how far we had come but also how far we still had to go. How, then, to encapsulate the legacy of someone who, according to the New York Times, was “the…