(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment ...

While rare, these stories remind us of life’s unpredictability, and how for some, their final chapter concludes on the very ...

Anti-feminists claim that Friedan espoused self-interested careerism and hated men, neither of which is true. Feminists sometimes believe the book was more influential and radical than it actually ...

Music Theatre International is licensing the Britney Spears jukebox musical, which played Broadway in 2023.

Carl Friedan is an American Relative. He is famous for Marriage to activist Betty Friedan. American Activist Betty Friedan was born Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan on 4th February, 1921 in Peoria, ...

U.S. schools often teach feminism as a fight for freedom from housework and caretaking, spearheaded by largely white, middle- and upper-class women such as Betty Friedan. Through this lens ...

“A basic restructuring of our economy is needed now,” writes Betty Friedan in her latest book, Beyond Gender. “And this restructuring can’t be accomplished in terms of women versus men, black versus ...

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research into how women felt about their lives in the early 1960s. She published her findings in a book called The Feminine Mystique (1963), which ...

And as an attorney, her work informed feminist leaders Betty Friedan (above), Shirley Chisholm and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—who cited Murray as coauthor on her landmark gender-equality case in 1971.