Gloria steinem helped to found the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, and Choice USA. Gloria was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women and helped …show more content…
magazine. In 1960 she moved to New York and began writing freelance articles for popular magazines.One of her first major assignments in investigative journalism was a two-part series for Show magazine on the working conditions of Playboy bunnies. Gloria was a Social activist, writer, editor and lecturer and was born in Ohio in 1934.Gloria won the CFDA Board of Directors' Tribute and Glamour Lifetime Achievement Award. Her net worth is 3 Million. She is 83 years old. When Gloria was 8 years old her parents divorced.
In 1970, Gloria Steinem published a lengthy interview with Hugh Hefner, founder and editor of Playboy Magazine. In that dialogue Steinem debated Hefner on issues such as women's rights, the "sexual revolution," consumerism, and the "Playboy philosophy." Gloria also worked with Cesar Chavez in his efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers. Gloria’s feminist concerns were first sparked when she went to a meeting of the Redstockings, a New York women's liberation group. Although she went as a journalist with the intention of writing a story about the group, she found herself deeply moved by the stories the women told, particularly of the dangers of illegal abortions.
Gloria Steinem's commitment to the political causes of the New Left provided a natural path into her later career as a feminist