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A journalist, political activist, and the leading spokeswoman of the American feminist movement in the late 1960’s and early 1970s. In 1969, she published a seminal article in New York Magazine, where she was a columnist, in which she called for women’s liberation and linked feminism with black emancipation in the United States. Steinem co-founded Ms., a liberal feminist magazine, and was a spokesperson for women’s rights, helping spark a national conversation around women’s issues and motivating other feminists to take center stage as well. In 2005, together with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan, she founded the Women’s Media Center, to raise the visibility and standing of women in the media. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013.
