Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, 1934

Gloria Steinem was born in Ohio on March 25, 1934. In 1944, when she was just 10, her father left the family home and Gloria began caring for her emotionally disturbed mother, attending school on an infrequent basis. In 1951 Gloria moved to Washington, D.C. to live with her sister, completed high school, enrolled in Smith College the following year and began writing political articles. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and accepted a two-year fellowship to study in India, writing a guidebook for the Indian government. By 1960 Gloria decided to move to New York City to embark on a journalism career and published her n first major article entitled "The Moral Disarmament of Betty Co-ed." She co-founded New York Magazine in 1968 and shortly thereafter, wrote her first feminist article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation." From 1969 to1974, Gloria lectured on feminism throughout the United States and was awarded the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award for "After Black Power, Women's Liberation." Gloria helped develop Ms. Magazine in 1971, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Women's Action Alliance. In 1983, she published Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, a collection of essays and articles. She continues to write, lecture and tour. �Women have gotten where we are today mainly through individual women telling the truth.� - Gloria Steinem

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