The National Press Club is a professional organization and social community in Washington, D.C., for journalists and communications professionals. It hosts public and private gatherings with invited s
A meeting at the National Press Club in March 2007
The National Press Building following its opening in the early 1900s
Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Marie Steinem is an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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…into their club and renamed it the Washington Press Club. The next month, the National Press Club voted 227 to 56 to admit women. In 1972, journalist Gloria Steinem, a feminist leader and founder of Ms. magazine, was the first woman to speak at the National Press Club, although first lady Eleanor Roosevelt attended…
Steinem in 2016
The first issue of Ms., released in 1972
Steinem at the LBJ Library in 1975
Gloria Steinem in 1977, photographed by Lynn Gilbert