Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies at 92

Steinem is born in Toledo, Ohio. She and her older sister, Susanne, spend much of their early childhood traveling the country with their parents, Ruth and Leo, a traveling antiques salesman. She does not attend school regularly until she is 11.

Graduates from Smith College with a degree in government, then spends two years in India on a fellowship. At 22, in London, she has an illegal abortion — an experience she does not disclose publicly until 1969, and which drives her lifelong work on abortion rights.

Goes undercover as a Playboy bunny and publishes a two-part exposé in Show magazine on working conditions in Hugh Hefner's clubs, her first taste of national fame.

Becomes a founding editor and political columnist at New York magazine.

Publishes "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," the article that cements her as a movement leader.

Co-founds Ms. magazine, which begins as an insert in New York magazine and becomes a standalone title the following year. The same year she co-founds the National Women's Political Caucus to elect more women to office.

Ms. becomes the first national publication to put domestic violence on its cover.

Publishes "Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem," panned by some reviewers as a retreat from activism.

Marries lawyer and entrepreneur David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale, at age 66, surprising followers who knew her as a critic of marriage. Bale dies of lymphoma three years later.

President Barack Obama awards her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. She is 79.

Publishes her memoir, "My Life on the Road," dedicated to the doctor who referred her for her abortion.

Her life is dramatized in "Mrs. America," the FX miniseries that streamed on Hulu.