Summary Of The Problem That Has No Mane By Betty Friedan

According to Betty Friedan, “the problem that has no mane” is associated with the widespread of unhappy women in the 1950’s and 1960’s. When American women first tried to address the problem they only realized the dissatisfaction they were feeling and were embarrassed to own up to it. In the PDF I read that women would often say “I feel as if I do not exist” or “I feel empty somehow… incomplete.” Women all over were expected to be by being the typical perfect married housewife by taking care of her kids, having the house cleaned, dinner made, and sleeping happily next to her husband. However, to many women, something was missing that they could not detect. Whether it is they pressured into being married you’re or genuinely not being absolute happy at all. Women were not offered many opportunities back then other than having one major occupation which was being a “housewife.”
She mad woman feel comfortable with the fact that “you did not want to wash the dishes, take the children to school, reading the newspaper, and wash the clothes.” When Ms. Friedan conducted her surveys in her 15th reunion most of the higher educated women were the main ones to want to neglect the typical housewife roles. Whereas once the problem that has no name was out in the open many educators “suggested seriously that women no longer be admitted to the four-year colleges and universities” mainly having to do with women not wanting to experience more of the world but stay tuned into their typical daily