Women through history: The 70s by Ade C. López https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey Researching about important women who made history during the 70's decade. en-us 2019-03-26 11:28:33 UTC 2025-12-14 23:48:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png Gloria Steinem adecasinolop https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345189835 Gloria Marie Steinem (1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.]]> 2019-03-26 11:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345189835 Journalist career: In 1972, she co-founded the feminist-themed magazine Ms. with Dorothy Pitman Hughes; it began as a special edition of New York, and Clay Felker funded the first issue.Its 300,000 test copies sold out nationwide in eight days. Within weeks, Ms. had received 26,000 subscription orders and over 20,000 reader letters.The magazine was sold to the Feminist Majority Foundation in 2001; Steinem remains on the masthead as one of six founding editors and serves on the advisory board. adecasinolop https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345190545 2019-03-26 11:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345190545 Steinem's Activism adecasinolop https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345192040
On July 10, 1971, Steinem was one of over three hundred women who founded the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC)(...). She delivered the speech "Address to the Women of America", stating in part:


This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are 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. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.[53]

]]> 2019-03-26 11:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345192040 Awards: adecasinolop https://padlet.com/adecasinolop/30cinv92j9ey/wish/345193194
  • American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's Bill of Rights Award[2]
  • American Humanist Association's 2012 Humanist of the Year (2012)[2]
  • Biography magazine's 25 most influential women in America (Steinem was listed as one of them)[2]
  • DVF Lifetime Leadership Award (2014)[116]
  • Emmy Citation for excellence in television writing[2]
  • Esquire magazine's 75 greatest women of all time (Steinem was listed as one of them) (2010)[117]
  • Equality Now's international human rights award, given jointly to her and Efua Dorkenoo (2000)[118]
  • Glamour magazine's "The 75 Most Important Women of the Past 75 Years" (Steinem was listed as one of them) (2014)[119]
  • Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's Liberty Award[2]

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