{"id":589071,"date":"2026-09-03T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:38:12","slug":"feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589071\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist icon Gloria Steinem dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steinem was a feminist icon whose influence spanned more than six decades.<\/p>\n

She emerged as a leader of the women\u2019s liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s, co-founded Ms. magazine, and became a prominent advocate for gender equality.<\/p>\n

In 2013, she received the Medal of Freedom, a US Presidential honour, presented to her by then-President Barack Obama, for her work and activism.<\/p>\n

\"FeministFeminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem. Picture \/ Annie Leibovitz.<\/p>\n

Steinem\u2019s new memoir, An Unexpected Life, is due to be released on September 22.<\/p>\n

Her Instagram account said the book, along with her commitment to her home becoming a centre for social justice movements, was among the gifts she gave the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have now lived for more than fifty years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after I am gone,\u201d Steinem wrote in an extract from the book.<\/p>\n

Steinem visited New Zealand in May 2016 as part of the Auckland Writer\u2019s Festival, where she spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Viva during that visit<\/a>, she offered advice to young women: \u201cDo not listen to me. Listen to yourself, the unique voice inside you. Do what you love so much you forget what time it is while you\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steinem was a feminist icon whose influence spanned more than six decades. She emerged as a leader of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35877,18919,6179,7126,46892,83428,42,9832,3218,24350,3927,43,16487,289924,40,38,41,39,130355,2834],"class_list":["post-589071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-35877","tag-aged","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-feminist","tag-gloria","tag-headlines","tag-helped","tag-icon","tag-modern","tag-movement","tag-news","tag-shape","tag-steinem","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trailblazer","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}