Women activists who pushed boundaries and helped equate gender

4. Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem In 1960 was a writer and journalist in New York City. She stepped onto the main stage when she wrote in 1963 the article I Was a Playboy Bunny, which unveiled the undertones of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club. By 1968 Steinem worked on writing a column, The City Politic, for New York magazine. In 1968 she went to the radical feminist group, the Redstockings, meetings.

Steinem also founded the National Women’s Political Caucus in July 1971 with colleagues Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, and Shirley Chisholm.

Also in 1971, she formulated a new magazine with a feminist perspective, which was Ms.magazine.

Steinem fought in the political ring and was an advocate for the women’s liberation movement. She helped found the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Voters for Choice, Women Against Pornography and the Women’s Media Center. In 2016 she hosted Woman with Gloria Steinem a television documentary series.

She is also an accomplished author in the form of the essay, with her collections Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983) and Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender (1994); Revolution from Within (1992), Marilyn (1997), and the memoir My Life on the Road (2015).

In 2013 Steinem got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, according to Brittanica.com.