May 26, 2012
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    gloria steinem

    By Jason Fink

    Feminist icon Gloria Steinem to be honored by New York City Council

    Photo credit: Urbanite

    Feminist icon Gloria Steinem will be honored Wednesday by the New York City Council.

    Steinem will be honored for her "many years of dedicated activism and leadership," according to Council Speaker Christine Quinn's office, which announced the ceremony Tuesday.

    The honor celebrates Steinem's 75th birthday, which was in March.The found of Ms. magazine, Steinem was one of the country's leading women's rights figures of the 1960s and 70s.

    She has remained politically active, writing a widely discussed op-ed piece in the New York Times during the 2008 Democratic primary in which she argued that gender was "probably the most restricting force in American life," igniting a debate about the prejudices faced by the two front-runners: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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