NEW YORK — Gloria Steinem, a leading voice of the U.S. women’s liberation movement, writer, and co-founder of Ms. magazine, has died at 92, her foundation said, according to the BBC.
The foundation said she “passed away peacefully” at her New York City home on Wednesday, “surrounded by many who loved her.” Steinem co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance more than 50 years ago, campaigned for reproductive rights and equal pay, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama in 2013.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1934, she built a journalism career that included an exposé of Playboy Bunny working conditions and co-founding Ms. in 1972. She married David Bale in 2000; he died in 2003. Hillary Clinton called her “one of the architects of the entire structure of women’s equality,” and Meghan Markle paid tribute to a “friend and mentor.”
Sources: BBC.
