New York (United States), Sept. 3 (LaPresse) – Gloria Steinem, the journalist, writer and activist who became one of the most recognizable symbols of the US feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 92. Her social media channels and those of her foundation reported this. Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York. Co-founder of Ms. magazine, she was for decades one of the best-known voices in the fight for women’s rights in the United States, taking part in demonstrations and marches and speaking at universities and community centers. Her career began in journalism. In 1963, she conducted an investigation into working conditions in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire, carrying out the investigation undercover, an experience she later said she regretted. Six years later, a meeting during which several women publicly shared their experiences and supported the right to abortion marked, according to Steinem, a turning point in her life. “That public testimony was the beginning of my activism,” she told the Associated Press in 2022, recalling the debate that followed the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Steinem had said she underwent an illegal abortion at the age of 22, when it was still against the law. “Either control over our bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we do not live in a democracy,” she had said. In a 2015 interview with the Associated Press, Steinem also stressed the importance of physical presence in activism: “You can’t do it by phone or on the web. You have to be there with all five senses.”
US: Gloria Steinem, icon of American feminism, dies at 92
New York (United States), Sept. 3 (LaPresse) – Gloria Steinem, the journalist, writer and activist who became one of the most recognizable symbols of the US feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 92. Her social media channels and those of her foundation reported this. Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York. Co-founder of Ms. magazine, she was for decades one of the best-known voices in the fight for women’s rights in the United States, taking part in demonstrations and marches and speaking at universities and community centers. Her career began in journalism. In 1963, she conducted an investigation into working conditions in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire, carrying out the investigation undercover, an experience she later said she regretted. Six years later, a meeting during which several women publicly shared their experiences and supported the right to abortion marked, according to Steinem, a turning point in her life. “That public testimony was the beginning of my activism,” she told the Associated Press in 2022, recalling the debate that followed the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Steinem had said she underwent an illegal abortion at the age of 22, when it was still against the law. “Either control over our bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we do not live in a democracy,” she had said. In a 2015 interview with the Associated Press, Steinem also stressed the importance of physical presence in activism: “You can’t do it by phone or on the web. You have to be there with all five senses.”