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Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism
Her death comes as conservatives press for traditional gender roles and abortion restrictions, with 13 states now enforcing total or near-total bans, officials said.
- Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at age 92, leaving a legacy rooted in her fierce advocacy for reproductive choice after witnessing women discuss abortion rights in 1969.
- Fewer than 50% of women were in the labor force in the late 1960s, when firing pregnant employees remained legal until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978.
- The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 made it illegal to deny women credit based on sex; Congress then had only 11 women, compared with 152 today.
- Heritage Foundation analyst Emma Waters criticizes feminism for prioritizing career over motherhood, while co-author Delano Squires argued it did a "grave disservice" by devaluing marriage and family.
- Stanford University professor Estelle Freedman said the feminist movement "has gone through periods of mobilization and gains, and periods of backlash and losses," with "continuous reorganization" despite the Supreme Court overturning Roe.
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It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism. The idea that women couldn't reach equality without the ability to decide whether or when to have children was central to the feminist movement of the late 1960s, which Steinem came to [...]
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Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism
It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism. The idea that women couldn’t reach equality without the ability to decide whether or when to have children was central to the feminist movement of the late 1960s, which Steinem came to embody until her death at age 92 o
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