# Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon and Journalist, Dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, a pioneering journalist and feminist activist, has died at age 92 in New York City.

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Gloria Steinem, a pioneering journalist and feminist activist, died at the age of 92 at her home in New York City. [^1]

Gloria Steinem, a key player in the women's movement during the latter part of the 20th century, died on Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. [^2]

Steinem made her name as a journalist with a 1963 undercover investigation inside Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, where she worked as a cocktail waitress under the fake name Marie. [^3]

Steinem published her investigation as 'A Bunny's Tale' in Show magazine, exposing sexist and exploitative working conditions faced by Playboy Bunnies. [^4]

Steinem worked on issues including reproductive freedom, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, and gender inequality over several decades. [^5]

For more than half a century, Steinem personified the women's movement and became its most enduring symbol, according to The New York Times. [^6]

Steinem became a symbol of second-wave feminism, involved in expanding the movement beyond suffrage into equality in the workplace, home, and under the law. [^7]

Steinem stated in an interview that 'Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we're not living in a democracy.' [^8]

## What this stands on

1. Gloria Steinem, a pioneering journalist and feminist activist, died at the age of 92 at her home in New York City. (Hindustan Times, News)
2. Gloria Steinem, a key player in the women's movement during the latter part of the 20th century, died on Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. (WFTV, News)
3. Steinem made her name as a journalist with a 1963 undercover investigation inside Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, where she worked as a cocktail waitress under the fake name Marie. (Hindustan Times, News)
4. Steinem published her investigation as 'A Bunny's Tale' in Show magazine, exposing sexist and exploitative working conditions faced by Playboy Bunnies. (Hindustan Times, News)
5. Steinem worked on issues including reproductive freedom, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, and gender inequality over several decades. (Hindustan Times, News)
6. For more than half a century, Steinem personified the women's movement and became its most enduring symbol, according to The New York Times. (WFTV, News)
7. Steinem became a symbol of second-wave feminism, involved in expanding the movement beyond suffrage into equality in the workplace, home, and under the law. (WFTV, News)
8. Steinem stated in an interview that 'Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we're not living in a democracy.' (WFTV, News)

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