Betty Friedan (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))
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Betty Friedan spent the 1950’s struggling as a housewife with what she later termed “the problem that has no name.” As she stated in The Feminine Mystique, she, like women all over the country, “lay beside her husband at night . . . afraid to even ask of herself the silent question, ‘Is this all?’”
The Feminine Mystique evoked strong responses from both men and women and launched Friedan into public activism. In 1966, she founded and became the first president of NOW, the purpose of which was “to bring women into full...
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