Last Updated: 25 Mar, 2023 | Views: 540
Age: 90
Profession: Journalist
Other Profession(s): Essayist, Social Activist, Screen Writer
Famous For: Most Passionate Leaders And Spokeswomen Of The Women's Rights Movement
Higher Education: Smith College (BA)
About (Profile/Biography):
Gloria Marie Steinem is a journalist and social-political activist from the United States who rose to prominence as a national figurehead of second-wave feminism in the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine and wrote a column for New York magazine. In 1969, Steinem wrote an article titled "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which established her as a leading feminist and gained her national notoriety. She was a founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus, which was established in 1971 to promote and train women running for elected and appointed positions in the government.
Career:
In 1950: Steinem served as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow for two years in India.
In 1959: She organized the World Youth Festival for non-Communist American students.
In 1963: Steinem was serving as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club when she was writing an article for Huntington Hartford's Show magazine.
In 1969: Her coverage for New York Magazine took place in a church basement in Greenwich Village, where she attended an abortion speak-out.
In 1973: As a member of Stewardesses for Women's Rights, she addressed the first national conference that was organized, which she supported for the remainder of its existence.
Achievements and Awards:
In 2013: Steinem got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 2014: She was awarded the DVF Lifetime Leadership Award.
In 2015: Steinem was honored with the Library Lion award.
Unknown Facts:
Steinem appeared in the debut episode of Woman Alive!, a television series that Ms. created in partnership with public television in 1974. She co-founded Ms. magazine.
Steinem pledged to forego paying taxes in protest of the Vietnam War when she signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge in 1968.
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