This was also a great achievement. Later in 1966‚ the National Organization for Women or NOW was created. This organization has been influential in the feminize movement and is still around today. This organization was created by Betty Friedan and other feminists. Friedan was journalists who traveled to interview women that graduated from her college. Her findings were that these women were playing the role they were given as house wives and mothers‚ despite the fact that they were miserable and unhappy
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reunion‚ Friedan surveyed all of her classmates about their lives at home and came to realize that her classmates were not happy being housewives. Betty did not mean to write a whole book on this issue and only wanted to write an article that would be published in a magazine‚ but no magazine would publish it for her. Immediately after publishing The Feminine Mystique she received a powerful backlash. Many people used the words‚ “angry‚” and “anger‚” to describe The Feminine Mystique and Betty Friedan
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The Unnamed Problem In her 1963 book‚ A Feminine Mystique‚ Betty Friedan wrote‚ “As she made the beds‚ shopped for groceries‚ matched slipcover material‚ ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children‚ chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies‚ lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—‘Is this all?’”1. As a result of the constantly glaring of the classic “housewife” from magazines such as Good Housekeeping and members of the government such as Governor
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The life of Betty Friedan began on February 4‚ 1921. She was born in Peoria‚ Ill. She grew up in Middle America. Her father was a jewelry store owner. Her mother became a housewife after quitting her job as a newspaper women’s page editor. As a girl Betty used to watch her father belittle her mother as she was growing up. She eventually became her High School’s valedictorian and graduate of Smith College in 1942. She then went off to University of California‚ Berkeley to study Psychology. After college
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Feminine Mystique‚ Betty Friedan wrote about women’s inequality from men to women’s equality to men‚ women accepting the inequality to women fighting for equality. Feminine Mystique‚ is trying to encourage the reader to what occurred during the feminist movement. How women’s rights came to a reality‚ how women believed there was only one role to have which is a typical housewife that has a husband to overpower her. Not being able to vote‚ or have any rights as an equal to men. Friedan also defines
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The 1950’s and the 1960’s and the American Woman : the transition from the ”housewife” to the feminist Vanessa Martins Lamb To cite this version: Vanessa Martins Lamb. The 1950’s and the 1960’s and the American Woman : the transition from the ”housewife” to the feminist. 2011‚ pp.106. <dumas-00680821> HAL Id: dumas-00680821 http://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-00680821 Submitted on 2 Apr 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents
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Word Count: 1‚018 The Importance of Work According to Friedan‚ men and women need work that satisfies their creativity and contributes to human society. According to Mrs. Olive Schreiner‚ “if women did not win back their right to a full share of honored and useful work‚ women’s mind and muscle would weaken in a parasitic state; her offspring‚ male and female would weaken progressively‚ and civilization itself would deteriorate.” (Friedan 8) I agree with this statement‚ I think that the work ethic
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"The Feminine Mystique" Analysis Paper By: Tess Taylor Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was first published in the United States in 1963 by W. W. Norton & Company. Friedan began writing this piece after she attended her fifteen-year college reunion at Smith‚ a woman’s college. She prepared a questionaire for 200 of her classmates at this reunion. The results were as she expected; many American women were unhappy and did not know why. Many magazines did not want to post Friedan’s results
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Under the influence of many songs like “You Don’t Own Me”‚ women in the society started to take the revolutionary thoughts into actions. One of the most pioneering feminist leaders was Gloria Steinem. After graduating from Smith College in 1956‚ Steinem chose to travel to India and continue to study instead of getting married as many other women at the time‚ and later‚ she established her career as a freelance writer. One of her most famous article was about her experience in the New York City’s
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unemployment rates were extremely high‚ three fifths of women that were aged over 16 were not working. The women that did have a job however‚ were paid on average $12‚000 less than men annually. Women’s lives were massively changed because of Betty Friedan‚ in 1963 Friedan wrote a book called “The Feminine Mystique” this book was a non-fiction book which highlighted the widespread unhappiness in the USA about how women were being treated‚ a quote taken from. the book read; “A girl should not expect special
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