Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92 ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes By the time she died on Wednesday, at 92 years old at her home in New York, Gloria Steinem was synonymous with feminism, a kind of human mascot…
Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist activist, passed away at the age of 92 on Wednesday at her residence in New York. Once known as a distant concept, feminism had become a symbol of her influence and the movement's aspirations and setbacks. Born into a poor, itinerant family in Ohio during the 1930s and 40s, Steinem encountered the suffrage movement, which secured women's voting rights less than two decades prior, as a distant relic of the past.
However, encountering the harsh realities of life gradually radicalized her views about gender inequality. Steinem attended Smith College and pursued a postgraduate fellowship in India in 1957, where she had an illegal abortion in London. Her exposure to the Women's Liberation movement in 1969, while working as a journalist for New York magazine, further fueled her commitment to feminist causes.
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