Gloria Steinem last night challenged her audience to do at least one outrageous thing to further the cause of equality in the next week.

The challenge culminated a two-hour speech which addressed such issues as abortion, pay equity and curriculum integration as well as the future of the feminist movement.

"All of us are on the edge of history with nothing to guide us," Steinem said. "We know in our hearts that there will not ever be a turning back."

The speech, "Women: The New Immigrants," was shown via television satellite in two University Park classrooms and at 13 other Commonwealth campuses.

The local broadcast was co-sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and Beta Sigma Beta fraternity, 255 E. Fairmount Ave., as part of Ebony and Ivory Week. The week's activities are designed to address racism and other forms of oppression.

"She has a way of getting her point across without putting anyone down," said audience member Elizabeth Lochbaum (senior-health development and family studies).

Steinem said conservative members of the country's power structure want to restrict abortion because controlling women's bodies perpetuates the current patriarchal society.

"Women will not be full citizens until we achieve reproductive freedom as a basic human right," Steinem said.

On the issue of education, Steinem stressed the need for complete integration of the achievements and experiences of women and people of color into textbooks.

"Until they are a full part of every textbook, we will not be learning real history," she said.

In the meantime, Steinem said it is important to encourage the growth of women's studies and black studies at universities.

There is a need to incorporate more progressive ideas into the education system, said audience member Rachel Ash-Bernal (senior-biology and Spanish).

Among five goals mentioned by Steinem was equity in work and pay. To achieve this, it is necessary to establish benefits for housewives such as pensions and disability pay, she said.

Steinem also said the value placed on different kinds of work must be changed to match the importance of that work. For instance, nurses should be paid comparable to pharmacists, she said.

"Right now people are paid according to the social standing of the worker," she said.

Steinem said Ms. magazine, which she founded in the 1970s, will start printing again this summer after ceasing publication at the end of 1989. The magazine will have no advertisements, print six issues a year and subscriptions will be $40.