In Battle to Use ‘Ms.,’ Gloria Steinem Had to Fight The New York Times - Peer2Peer

In Battle to Use ‘Ms.,’ Gloria Steinem Had to Fight The New York Times

Sep 04, 2026

In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/arts/gloria-steinem-ms-new-york-times-abe-rosenthal.html

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