She oversaw the public relations program for the sweetener's United States Food and Drug Administration approval on April 1, 1999.
Her anthology Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face off on their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families was published in 2006 by Random House and the essays by a range of at-home and working mothers such as Jane Smiley, Susan Cheever, Carolyn Hax and Jane Juska generated extensive media interest and controversy among conflicted American mothers, including mommy bloggers,[1] daddy bloggers[2] and publications such as The Atlantic Monthly,[3] the Los Angeles Times[4] and elsewhere.
[5] After the book's publication, Steiner continued to interpret the mommy wars, including the controversy created by the nomination of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate[6] and Michelle Obama's position as the first African-American first lady.
On Balance, one of the site's first forays into the blogosphere, quickly became popular among a diverse audience of men and women with and without children.
Steiner's 2009 memoir Crazy Love,[8] about surviving domestic violence spent three weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.