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Gloria Steinem

" A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

 

Gloria Steinem, born in 1934, is an American journalist and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the American feminist movement.

 

During her childhood, Steinem and her family traveled around the country in a trailer led by her father, who was buying and selling antiques simply to get to the next place. Growing up, she witnessed and anti-woman bias in society, especially seeing the way her mother, after divorcing, was being treated by doctors who disregarded her evident distress and mental illness. 

 

Steinem graduated from Smith College as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., which has promoted and advocated academic excellence. 

 

Her activism includes signing the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, pledging to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War, and she also protested against the South African apartheid system.

 

In her speech "Address to the Women of America." she stated that people discriminate based on race and sex because it is easy and "visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends."

 

In 2015, she joined an international group of 30 leading female peacemakers and became an honorary co-chairwoman of the 2015 Women's Walk for Peace in Korea, which called for Korea's demilitarization and reunification.

 

Steinem is currently an honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.