Gloria Stavers (October 3, 1927 – April 1, 1983) was the editor in chief of "16 Magazine". Her personality gave this teen celebrity magazine its stamp for many years. Stavers is credited with being one of the first women rock and roll journalists, but male editors, detractors and those who scoffed at teen or celebrity magazines sometimes called her "Mother Superior of the Inferior".
Male editors had a disdain for Gloria Stavers