Gloria Steinem

By evelyn xue

  • Born in Toledo, Ohio

  • Parents divorced

  • Gloria escaped to Smith College

  • Started her career of journalism in New York

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    worked as a scriptwriter for "That Was the Week That Was"

  • Began writing a weekly column, "The City Politic," for the recently started New York magazine

  • attended Redstockings and became involved in feminist movements

  • The first complete issue of Ms.

  • Equal Rights Amendment

  • National Committee of the Observance of International Women's Year

  • Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

    a collection of her essays and articles written over the two previous decades

  • Marilyn

    a biography of the film star Marilyn Monroe, whom Steinem viewed as a victim of many of the kinds of exploitation of women that the women's movement was seeking to end

  • Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

  • Moving Beyond Words

  • married English businessman, David Bale