Ms. after 50: Gloria Steinem and a feminist publishing revolution

As the women's liberation movement was picking up steam more than half a century ago, feminism – the idea of equality for women – was a new and controversial idea. Gloria Steinem says the very word "feminism" seemed to threaten people for two reasons: "One, because they didn't understand it, and two, because they did understand it!"

Now 89, Steinem was a 30-something columnist for New York magazine when she joined with a group of other journalists to create a new magazine aiming to push feminism into the mainstream. 

Even the title, Ms. – a newly-emerging designation for those who didn't want to be bound by Mrs. (for a married woman) or Miss (for a single woman) – was an issue. The New York Times even referred to her as "Miss Steinem of Ms. Magazine."