女性被称为女士，全是因为她

将女士“Ms.”（女士）的头衔推广到全球的希拉·迈克尔斯今年因病逝世，享年78岁。

迈克尔斯生于圣路易斯，这个头衔并非她发明，但她却将其发扬光大。她最早在20世纪60年代寄给她舍友的杂志的地址标签上看到了这个词，并以为那是拼写错误。几年后，她在无线电广播中提到了它，随后，这个词就开始流行起来。

The Woman Who Popularized ‘Ms.’ Dies at 78

Sheila Michaels, who ushered the title "Ms." into the world's vocabulary, has died at the age of 78.

Born in St. Louis, Michaels didn't invent the term she was associated with, but did manage to resurrect it from obscurity. She initially saw the term on the address label of a magazine delivered to a roommate in the 1960s and initially thought it was a typo. Years later, she mentioned it during a radio broadcast and it began to take off.

1972年，Ms. Magazine创刊，这个名字就源自迈克尔斯的推动。到1986年，该头衔已经被普遍接受，《纽约时报》宣布将在新闻和社论专栏中使用它。

在·2016年接受《纽约时报》采访，谈到她自己的讣闻时，迈克尔斯表示：“显然，它之前用于速记已经有些日子了。但我之前从未见过这种用法，它属于冷知识。”

作为著名女权主义者和公民权益改革者，迈克尔斯承担了多份工作，包括为纽约出租车司机当代笔作家，经营一家日本餐厅等。

今年6月22日，她因急性白血病逝世于曼哈顿。 （财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

In 1972, Ms. Magazine lached, choosing the name after prompting from Michaels. By 1986, the term had reached a level of common acceptance that the New York Times announced it was adding the title to its news and editorial columns.

“Apparently, it was in use in stenographic books for a while,” Michaels said in an 2016 interview for her own obituary with the New York Times. “I had never seen it before: It was kind of arcane knowledge.”

A leading feminist and civil rights crusader, Michaels held a wide variety of jobs, ranging from a ghostwriter to a New York taxi driver to running a Japanese restaurant.

She died on June 22 in Manhattan of acute leukemia.