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Her name and face became almost synonymous with the fight for women\u2019s rights. She continued to be a vocal proponent of feminism and other liberal causes, like anti-war activism, into her 90s.\n \n\n \n She was honored for her decades-long civil rights work with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, as well as the United Nations\u2019 Society of Writers Award and the National Gay Rights Advocates Award.\n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n Born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio, Steinem inherited an activist tradition. Her grandmother served as chair of the educational committee of the National Women Suffrage Association, and also helped rescue members of her family, who were Jewish, from Germany during the mid-1930s.\n \n\n \n Steinem graduated from Smith College and moved to New York in 1960, where she was often sexualized and dismissed while searching for reporting jobs in a male-dominated journalism industry. \u201cWe need a reporter, not a pretty girl,\u201d she says she was told by an editor at Life. By 1962, one of her first articles was published in Esquire Magazine, an exploration of birth control and shifting sexual beliefs among college students \u2013 themes that would continue to appear in her later work.\n \n\n \n The next year, the young writer worked undercover as a cocktail waitress at the New York Playboy Club \u2013 publishing a scathing expose of the low pay and working conditions for so-called \u201cbunnies\u201d at the club, including pressure to perform sexual favors.\n \n\n \n The story, \u201cA Bunny\u2019s Tale,\u201d effectively launched Steinem\u2019s writing career. At the same time, it caused her to miss out on \u201cserious journalistic assignments because I had now become a Bunny \u2013 and it didn\u2019t matter why,\u201d she wrote in a postscript to the article.\n \n\n \n In 1968, Steinem was offered a job at the newly founded New York Magazine, where she wrote a column about politics, including articles about Shirley Chisholm\u2019s history-making run for president, Nixon\u2019s candidacy and a New York abortion speak-out.\n \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n Steinem began parlaying the fame that came from her provocative writing to political organizing.\n \n\n \n At a time when the nascent feminist movement was largely associated with White, middle-class women, Steinem made race and social class central to her thought and writing. In an influential 1969 article for New York Magazine, \u201cAfter Black Power, Women\u2019s Liberation,\u201d she highlighted parallels between the Black Power movement and the feminist movement and urged connections between different organizing groups to form a so-called \u201crevolutionary vanguard.\u201d\n \n\n \n In 1970, she testified in front of the Senate in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment \u2013 a proposed constitutional amendment first introduced in 1923 that stipulates that \u201cequality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.\u201d\n \n\n \n The next year, Steinem co-founded the National Women\u2019s Political Caucus as a result of Congress\u2019 failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. The caucus sought to help get women elected to political office, believing that women legislators would best represent women citizens.\n \n\n \n Steinem\u2019s speech at the caucus\u2019 founding event in Washington, DC helped make her a household name.\n \n\n\n \n \n\n \n \u201cSex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.\u201d\n \n\n \n In 1972, she partnered with child care advocate Dorothy Pitman Hughes to co-found Ms. Magazine, thought to be the first national American feminist magazine, which is still published today.\n \n\n \n She explained why she started the magazine in a 2011 HBO documentary: \u201cI realized as a journalist that there really was nothing for women to read that was controlled by women.\u201d\n \n\n\n Contradictions and controversy\n\n\n \n Throughout her career, Steinem was an avid supporter of the right to abortion and access to reproductive care, one of the issues she highlighted in Ms. Magazine. She had an abortion when she was 22 in London. The doctor who conducted the illegal procedure asked that she make two promises, according to the New Yorker: \u201cFirst, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.\u201d She kept the procedure a secret for almost 10 years.\n \n\n \n Abortion \u201cis supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that,\u201d she said in a 2011 interview with the Guardian. \u201cI used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty. But I never could! I think the person who said: \u2018Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament\u2019 was right.\u201d\n \n\n\n \n \n\n \n But it wasn\u2019t just her views that sometimes brought her criticism. Steinem\u2019s distinctly stylish look \u2013 she was often photographed in mini-skirts and aviator sunglasses with a curtain of long, straight hair \u2013 sometimes triggered reductionist analyses.\n \n\n \n \u201cThere is the notion that an attractive woman, whatever that means in society, a pretty girl can\u2019t be smart,\u201d she told Teen Vogue in 2011. \u201cWe are still identified by our looks instead of our hearts or heads.\u201d\n \n\n \n Steinem often criticized marriage as a sexist institution and remained unmarried until her 60s, when she married David Bale, an entrepreneur and the father of actor Christian Bale. He died of lymphoma only three years later.\n \n\n \n Her beliefs covered a barrage of political causes. She was a staunch anti-war advocate, she defended LGBTQ rights even when they were considered taboo in the feminist movement and she championed the work of women from marginalized communities \u2013 like the Indian feminist economist Devaki Jain and the Native American activist Wilma Mankiller.\n \n\n \n Steinem was not immune to criticism. She faced accusations of collaborating with the CIA for her participation in youth events sponsored by a CIA-funded organization in the 1950s. A 2016 New York Times profile of her claimed she \u201cstarted her career as a C.I.A. operative,\u201d which she promptly disputed.\n \n\n \n \u201cI was never told what to say or do at two Soviet-led youth festivals more than a half-century ago where American attendance was funded by C.I.A.-backed foundations,\u201d she wrote in response.\n \n\n \n She also received blowback from a 1998 op-ed in which she argued that President Bill Clinton\u2019s relationship with Monica Lewinsky didn\u2019t constitute sexual harassment. Years later, she said she \u201cwouldn\u2019t write the same thing now.\u201d\n \n\n\n\n \n Throughout the later decades of her life, she continued traveling the world to advocate for women\u2019s rights and other civil rights issues and writing about politics and society. She served as honorary co-chair and speaker at the Women\u2019s March on Washington, DC in 2017, following Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration as US president.\n \n\n\n \n \n\n \n \u201cWe are united here for bodily integrity,\u201d she said in front of the thousands of demonstrators. \u201cIf you cannot control your body from the skin in, you cannot control it from the skin out, you cannot control your lives, our lives. And that means that the right to decide whether and when to give birth without government interference.\u201d\n \n\n \n Steinem also stepped into the literary world, publishing several collections of essays and a biography of Marilyn Monroe. She detailed her experiences in the feminist movement and political organizing in a 2015 memoir, \u201cMy Life on the Road.\u201d\n \n\n \n Her career has been dramatized in multiple forms, including the 2018 play \u201cGloria: A Life,\u201d the 2020 biographic film \u201cThe Glorias\u201d and the 2020 miniseries \u201cMrs. America,\u201d which depicts the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.\n \n\n \n In her late 80s, she even made a cameo \u2013 as herself \u2013 in the sequel to Sex and the City, \u201cAnd Just Like That\u2026\u201d in 2023.\n \n\n \n Even Steinem\u2019s New York City home has become something of an archive of the feminist movement. Much of her organizing work, including the first meetings of Ms. Magazine, took place at Steinem\u2019s three-story brownstone on the Upper East Side, where she\u2019s lived since the 1960s. Google Arts and Culture and Steinem\u2019s foundation launched a virtual tour of the historic building for her 87th birthday in 2021.\n \n\n \n Gloria\u2019s Foundation, a nonprofit organization, hopes to preserve the feminist ethos of that building, as well as the activist\u2019s own archives. The organization says its goal is to \u201censure that both the space, and the progress fostered in that feminist environment, is preserved, both for historical knowledge and appreciation and to foster future work.\u201d\n \n\n \n Reflecting on her career in an interview with the New Yorker, Steinem said, \u201cPeople are always asking me, \u2018Who will you pass the torch to?\u2019\u201d\n \n\n \n \u201cThe question makes me angry,\u201d she went on. \u201cThere is no one torch \u2013 there are many torches \u2013 and I\u2019m using my torch to light other torches. 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