4. Who Named MS and WHY

Why should all men be introduced as Mr but before you even hear the name of a woman, you find out if she's married or not? Two years later, Gloria Steinem launched a feminist magazine and named it Ms. The magazine took off, in popularity and notoriety, and Ms became common. for married, but only Mr. ... Originally, “Miss” was an unmarried woman; “Mrs” was a married woman. Those were the only options and women were defined by whether or not they were married. Then, a few decades back, women decided they'd chose for themselves what defined them, and it wasn't going to be their marital status. The term Ms dates back to at least 1901 and was originally a shortened form for Mistress. “Apparently it was in use in stenographic books for a while,” Michaels told the New York Times.