Betty Friedan Housewife

Betty Friedan and Barbara R. Bergmann both dissect the occupation and implications of being a housewife but from two different angles and for two different audiences. In Friedan's writing she is trying to counter theories presented previously to the American public on "The Housewife's Syndrome" which many have based on the role of "famine fulfillment" and show that it has more to do about identity crisis. Friedan sights that a number of outside influences such as marrying at a young age, media influences, community and even education were thought to be considered the cause for psychological pain. Friedan discounted many of these theories and believed the problem of "house wife fatigue", or boredom and frustration, was less about the empty