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]