{"id":337311,"date":"2026-09-03T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337311\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:16:13","slug":"gloria-steinem-champion-of-womens-rights-dies-in-nyc-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337311\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem, champion of women\u2019s rights, dies in NYC at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers are mourning the loss of Gloria Steinem, one of the most influential voices in feminist activism<\/a> and a leading figure in the women\u2019s rights movement, who died on Wednesday inside her Upper East Side home at age 92, according to a post made on her Instagram account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The post said she died \u201csurrounded by some of the many who loved her,\u201d but did not provide information on the circumstances leading to her death.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cGloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor,\u201d the post detailed.\n<\/p>\n

For more than half a century, Steinem championed women\u2019s rights, working for equality across gender, race, class and national boundaries.\n<\/p>\n

Known in the 1960s and 1970s for her long hair parted in the middle and signature tinted aviator glasses, Steinem \u2014 who once had a fear of public speaking \u2014 became a widely recognizable advocate for women\u2019s rights, appearing on TV and speaking at college campuses, rallies and marches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGloria\u2019s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard,\u201d the tribute post read. \u201cHer words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steinem\u2019s activism helped spur the recognition of numerous rights for women through Congressional action and Supreme Court cases in the latter half of the 20th century, as former Secretary of State (and New York Sen.) Hillary Rodham Clinton reminded in a statement Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Those achievements included Title IX, which ensured that women\u2019s sports programs in college received the same amount of funding as men\u2019s sports programs; and the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized women\u2019s reproductive rights across America for the next half-century before being overturned in the 2022 Dobbs decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t going to be an astronaut, but she made it possible for Sally Ride to be an astronaut. She wasn\u2019t going to play college sports, but she stood behind the women in Congress who passed Title IX. And she wasn\u2019t on the Supreme Court when Roe v. Wade was decided, but her voice and her activism was behind that advancement for women\u2019s rights,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a social media statement,<\/a> said Steinem had \u201ctaught America that sexism is a symptom of a system that can be changed,\u201d and that New York was \u201clucky to have her\u201d as a resident for 70 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the fight for equal pay to abortion access and political representation, she showed that progress comes when people organize, build power and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable,\u201d the mayor wrote. \u201cHer legacy is the millions of people she inspired to believe that a more just world was possible. She lived in New York for 70 years. We were lucky to have her. We mourn her loss and will carry her work forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Launching \u2018Ms.\u2019 magazine<\/p>\n

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Steinem was also a pioneering journalist at a time in America when men mostly ran newsrooms. After receiving numerous freelance and steady gigs \u2014 including one in which she went undercover to expose working conditions at Hugh Hefner\u2019s New York Playboy Club \u2014 Steinem co-founded \u201cMs.\u201d magazine in 1972.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the New York Times<\/a>, Steinem held meetings for Ms. in her Upper East Side home \u2014 the one she would live in for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe and several like-minded women wanted to create a publication that would speak to women\u2019s lives in a way that the women\u2019s magazines, devoted mainly to tips on beauty, how to catch a man and 25 exciting ways to make a hamburger, did not,\u201d the Times wrote.<\/p>\n

The glossy magazine was not without its skeptics. According to the Times, Harry Reasoner, a TV news anchor, dismissed the periodical saying, \u201cI\u2019ll give it six months before they run out of things to say.\u201d Though, he later apologized, the Times noted.<\/p>\n

But Ms. is still here.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time that first issue [of\u00a0Ms.] was published, there were local feminist publications here and in some other countries, but there was no national voice for those of us who had the radical idea that women are people,\u201d Steinem wrote for\u00a0Ms.\u2019 50th anniversary in 2022. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what the response would be, especially on newsstands, with no precedent or place for a women\u2019s magazine that wasn\u2019t about home, family and children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later years<\/p>\n

Those closest to Steinem said she spent her most recent years focused on two things she loved most: connecting with others and writing. She hosted hundreds of guests in her living room for Talking Circles, a tradition she said she hoped would continue after her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steinem\u2019s death occurred just weeks before the Sept. 22 release of her new book, \u201cAn Unexpected Life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book, along with her commitment to her home becoming a center for social justice movements, are among the many gifts Gloria has given the world with the hope they have ripple effects for generations to come,\u201d the post read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor Steinem are asked to consider donating to the Gloria Steinem Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers are mourning the loss of Gloria Steinem, one of the most influential voices in feminist activism…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2812,75,126686,9,24,55,54,56,613,466,54385],"class_list":["post-337311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-gloria-steinem","tag-manhattan","tag-ms-magazine","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-upper-east-side","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}