Gloria Steinem, born on born March 25, 1934, is an American journalist, feminist, social critic, and political activist. She is the founder and the publisher of Ms. Magazine, when the first issue hit the news stands in July 1972, its 300,000 copies sold out nationwide in eight days and it generated 26,000 subscription orders plus over 20,000 reader letters within weeks. She is also the founder of Choice USA, a pro-choice organization, co-founder of the Women’s Media Center, the Women's Action Alliance, in which she played a variety of roles within the Women’s Action Alliance, including chairing the board from 1971-1978 as well as being involved in fundraisers to assist the Alliance, and is an influential co-convener of the National Women's Political Caucus also Steinem was also a member of Democratic Socialists of America. However, Steinem began of her rise to national prominence in the 1970s.
By the 1972 election; the women's movement was rapidly expanding its political power. However, although she had brought in McGovern's single largest campaign contributor in 1968, she felt disrespected by McGovern's campaign staff. In April 1972, Steinem remarked that he "still doesn't understand the women's movement." McGovern ultimately excised the abortion issue from the party's platform, much to Steinem's disappointment. Steinem co-founded the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974, and participated in the National Conference of Women in
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