Tributes are pouring in for the American feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who died on Wednesday at her home in New York at the age of 92.
Steinem first gained national fame in 1963 when she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny to expose the poor working conditions women faced — a piece of journalism that helped launch her decades-long career as one of the most prominent voices in the fight for women's equality.
She went on to co-found Ms. Magazine and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honour.
Polly Toynbee, columnist at The Guardian newspaper, says that undercover exposé should not be a source of regret.
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Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in the early 1970s, creating a publication that sat alongside mainstream glossy titles while carrying an unapologetically feminist message.
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee says it reached people who might never have engaged with the movement otherwise.
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Steinem lived to see the US Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, rolling back the abortion rights she had spent decades defending.
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee says the threat to women's rights has sparked a fresh wave of activism.
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