Gloria Steinem
A Lifetime Spent Fighting for Women’s Rights
Intro
American feminist, journalist, media producer, and political activist Gloria Steinem is considered the world’s most famous feminist for her work in the Women’s Liberation Movement.1 Spanning from the late 1960s to the 1970s, the Women’s Liberation Movement fought for equal opportunities and rights, as well as greater personal freedom for women.2 To this end, Steinem has also been referenced as being involved with the second wave of feminism.
Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, the first feminist magazine, and has helped launch a variety of groups dedicated to advancing civil rights.2 Her perseverance in the field of feminism has resulted in influential organizations supporting women’s rights, such as the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the Women’s Media Center. Among other honors, Steinem was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 for her activism, an award recognizing her meritorious contributions and bestowed by President Barack Obama. Steinem continues to travel as an organizer and lecturer on issues of equality.3
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up.
- Gloria Steinem
About the Authors
Dan Pilat
Dan is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at The Decision Lab. He is a bestselling author of Intention - a book he wrote with Wiley on the mindful application of behavioral science in organizations. Dan has a background in organizational decision making, with a BComm in Decision & Information Systems from McGill University. He has worked on enterprise-level behavioral architecture at TD Securities and BMO Capital Markets, where he advised management on the implementation of systems processing billions of dollars per week. Driven by an appetite for the latest in technology, Dan created a course on business intelligence and lectured at McGill University, and has applied behavioral science to topics such as augmented and virtual reality.
Dr. Sekoul Krastev
Dr. Sekoul Krastev is a decision scientist and Co-Founder of The Decision Lab, one of the world's leading behavioral science consultancies. His team works with large organizations—Fortune 500 companies, governments, foundations and supernationals—to apply behavioral science and decision theory for social good. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University and is currently a visiting scholar at NYU. His work has been featured in academic journals as well as in The New York Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg. He is also the author of Intention (Wiley, 2024), a bestselling book on the science of human agency. Before founding The Decision Lab, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group and Google.
