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Ms. Magazine Celebrates 40 Years
Forty years ago, a new women’s magazine appeared on American newsstands promising to be a place where women could read about real women like themselves.
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Spring 1972. The first full issue of Ms. featured an “Everywoman” playfully modeled on a Hindu goddess to illustrate the many competing tasks modern women were expected to balance. (Courtesy of Ms. Magazine)
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Ms. “guiding light” Gloria Steinem at a news conference for Women's Action Alliance in January 1972, the month Ms. Magazine hit the newsstands. (US News and World Report and Library of Congress)
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A Women’s Liberation March in New York In 1970. (courtesy of Veteran Feminists of America)
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May 1974. The fathering instinct, and an expanded role for fathers in the lives of conscious modern families, was the headliner in this issue of Ms., whose editors wanted equality for all, not just women. (Courtesy of Ms. Magazine)