(FILES) Women's rights activist Gloria Steinem looks on during a meeting with French Minister of Women's Rights in New York on April 5, 1985. American journalist, activist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died, her foundation said on September 3, 2026. She was 92. "Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her," Gloria's Foundation said in a statement posted on Instagram, without specifying the cause of death. (Photo by Susan RAGAN / AFP)
September 3, 2026
Steinem opened doors for ‘millions of women’—Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON, United States(AFP)—Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday hailed late feminist icon Gloria Steinem as a trailblazer whose “activism was rooted in optimism.”
“Gloria Steinem pushed open doors not just for herself, but for literally millions of women behind her,” Clinton, who was also the first woman to be a major US party’s presidential nominee, said in a statement.
