Filomena Clarice Steady (previously Filomina Chioma Steady) is a US-based Sierra Leonean author and academic who specializes in the intersectionality of racism and sexism.
[2][3] Steady worked as a professor and as the director of women's studies at the California State University, Sacramento.
[3] In 1992, she took a career break from the university to work as a senior advisor on women and gender at the United Nations.
[3] She later worked at Wellesley College where she now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Africana Studies.
[2] Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism,[1] and for advocating for "humanistic feminism" that includes the rights and needs of children as well as women.