Carter Sherman
speaker
754 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Carter Sherman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the silencing of women is wrong.
The way to put it, I think, is more that women just are being listened to when they speak.
I think that's the thing that Gloria Steinem was so worried about throughout her career.
And I think what's really striking is actually that her mom was a journalist and she even wrote under a pseudonym, a male pseudonym, Duncan McKenzie, which is like, I say this is a person whose name is Carter Sherman, like a very like clearly meant to be male name.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And I mean, at the time, female reporters weren't really allowed oftentimes to be very hard hitting.
Often times women were relegated to writing about things like housekeeping or how to catch a man or beauty tips.
And so it was very difficult for women to break through and to be taken seriously within the journalistic community.
What kind of articles
Well, I think the most famous article that she ever wrote was an article that came out in 1963.
It was an expose about working at the Playboy Club.
It seems very Mad Men to me.
Women at the Playboy Club were servers and they would wear these incredibly tight leotards with bunny ears and bunny tails.
And Gloria Steinem went undercover there and worked there for a time and then wrote this expose about her experience there and talked about, you know, like losing weight because it was so hard and so degrading to work there.
She ended up, I think, actually finding herself to be treated as a little bit frivolous after that expose came out.
It made her famous, but it also made her
Oh, for sure.
I mean, I remember reading that piece when I was in high school and it actually was very inspiring to me in choosing to become a journalist because
felt that, yes, it was hard hitting and it did expose how difficult it was to be a working woman in that time.
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