Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson and the team behind

witness history on the World Service.

This week we're marking International Women's Day by featuring extraordinary stories of female fortitude from around the world,

including one of the fairly five jailed in Australia for protesting against the Vietnam War.

Our sons should not have been called up to go and fight in a war and I believe that the more that people understood, the more they would oppose it.

Also the poet known as the voice of Russia who defied the communist regime with her writing.

Plus the exiled Iranian Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi

and the Italian women who fought for the right to be paid for housework.

This work was invisible.

Society was running completely and work of what women were doing at home.

That's all coming up in the podcast and each of the women you'll hear has made a significant mark in her chosen field.

All have been inspirational.

First, we're going back 50 years to a moment when the USA witnessed an upsurge in feminist

consciousness, an example of which was the arrival of a new publication.

Louise Eelgo has been looking at the birth of Ms magazine and Louise joins us now, Louise.

Thanks, Max.

Well, Ms magazine is the first magazine in America to have been owned, run and written by women.

So back in 1972, something that was quite radical.

In fact, the very idea of equal rights for women at home and at work was also quite new and

and quite radical and to talk about it I've had the great pleasure of

interviewing one of the most famous feminists really of them all Gloria

Steinham she's a journalist and of course a

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