Ms

Literature, 1966

Fashionable title for an unmarried woman who may or may not be someone’s mistress.

Originally an abbreviation for “mistress”. A friend of Gloria Steinem heard a WBAI-radio interview with Sheila Michaels “The Feminists” group and suggested it as a title for her new magazine. The magazine Ms. arrived on newsstands in January 1972.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Michaels
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=ms+magazine
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ms+magazine