US journalist, feminist Steinem wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award
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Oviedo, Spain, May 19 (EFE).- American journalist and writer Gloria Steinem was awarded the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in Oviedo on Wednesday.
An icon of the feminist movement, the 87-year-old is renowned for her fight for the legalisation of abortion, equal gender pay and the Equal Rights Amendment, as well as her activism against child abuse and female genital mutilation.
Steinem began her career as a journalist in 1960 when she started working for Help! magazine, where she wrote an exclusive on the working conditions of women working at the controversial Playboy Club of New York.