Mary McNamara: Ms. Magazine helped millions become feminists. Its workplace helped me become an adult
Ms. Magazine recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a party in New York, and as a former staff member I was invited to attend. I went not knowing quite what to expect.
It's a complicated moment for women's rights. The term "feminist" is no longer as contentious as it once was, but recent events, including the exposure of systemic sexual harassment, the pandemic-forced exodus of women from the workplace and, most recently, the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade make it easy to feel that many of those 50 years of progress have been erased.
No such gloom hung over the 200 or so women who gathered in the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice on Sept. 8. Ms., and quarterly magazine, continues to provide information for women seeking abortions in all states as well as
