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Gloria Steinem and the Backlash Against the Feminist Progress She Accelerated

Gloria Steinem and the Backlash Against the Feminist Progress She Accelerated

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September 5th, 2026

Gloria Steinem and the Backlash Against the Feminist Progress She Accelerated

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Gloria Steinem died at the age of 92.

๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์Šคํƒ€์ด๋„˜์€ 92์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The fight for abortion rights led her into the feminist movement.

๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜ ์šด๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ˆ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚™ํƒœ๊ถŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The belief that equality is impossible without women's reproductive choice was central to the movement in the late 1960s.

์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์žฌ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์„ ํƒ๊ถŒ ์—†์ด๋Š” ํ‰๋“ฑ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์Œ์€ 1960๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์šด๋™์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The movement's victories greatly increased women's participation in the workforce, but wage gaps and inequality still remain.

๊ทธ ์šด๋™์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋Š˜๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž„๊ธˆ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ์™€ ๋ถˆํ‰๋“ฑ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

However, Steinem also saw strong opposition to her vision.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ด๋„˜์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋น„์ „์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ๋„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. After that, several states put abortion bans into effect.

2022๋…„ ๋Œ€๋ฒ•์›์€ ๋กœ ๋Œ€ ์›จ์ด๋“œ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์„ ๋’ค์ง‘์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ดํ›„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๋‚™ํƒœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ฒ•์ด ์‹œํ–‰๋๋‹ค.

Steinem called this a step backward for democracy.

์Šคํƒ€์ด๋„˜์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ํ›„ํ‡ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ €๋‹ค.

In contrast, conservative Christian activists see it as a victory. They argue that feminism has damaged the family and traditional gender roles.

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋…๊ต ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ํ™œ๋™๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต์  ์„ฑ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ›ผ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

Trump administration officials and conservative groups are running campaigns to encourage young women to marry early and put family first.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€ ๊ด€๋ฃŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ์ Š์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ฐ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์กฑ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋„๋ก ์žฅ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Delano Squires of the Heritage Foundation said feminism has harmed both women and men.

ํ—ค๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ง€ ์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ๋ธ๋ผ๋…ธ ์Šค์ฝฐ์ด์–ด์Šค๋Š” ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์ด ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ผ์ณค๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Emma Waters, also from the foundation, proposed policies that encourage marriage before age 30. She criticized feminism for creating a career-first culture.

๊ฐ™์€ ์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ์— ๋งˆ ์›Œํ„ฐ์Šค๋Š” 30์„ธ ์ด์ „ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์„ ์žฅ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์ด ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์šฐ์„  ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Steinem herself said she had no children and never regretted that decision.

์Šคํƒ€์ด๋„˜ ์ž์‹ ์€ ์ž๋…€๋ฅผ ๋‘์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ›„ํšŒํ•œ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She entered activism in her thirties after joining the abortion rights debate in 1969.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” 1969๋…„ ๋‚™ํƒœ๊ถŒ ๋…ผ์˜์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ํ›„ 30๋Œ€์— ํ–‰๋™์ฃผ์˜์— ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

At that time, women's labor force participation was below 50 percent, and there were only 11 female lawmakers in Congress.

๋‹น์‹œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์œจ์€ 50% ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์˜ํšŒ์—๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์˜์›์ด 11๋ช…๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Today, women's labor force participation is about 58 percent, and there are 152 female lawmakers in Congress.

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์œจ์€ ์•ฝ 58%๋กœ, ์˜ํšŒ์—๋Š” 152๋ช…์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์˜์›์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Professor Estelle Freedman of Stanford University said feminism's momentum may not stop because the economy depends on women's labor.

์Šคํƒ ํฌ๋“œ ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์—์Šคํ…” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋“œ๋จผ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋…ธ๋™์— ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์˜ ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์€ ๋ฉˆ์ถœ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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