The Problem That Has No Name By Betty Friedan
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“The Problem That Has No Name”
Betty Friedan’s writings in “The Problem That Has No Name” hopes to inform readers of the successful blindside against women that society had accomplished in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. Friedan’s findings demonstrated society’s role in convincing women to believe that their only contribution to society was as a housewife, and that nothing more from a woman was to be desired. Feminine propaganda encouraged girls from a young age that what was to be desired in life wasn’t success separate from a man, but rather following from a set of feminine rules that would eventually secure her a husband and guarantee her a life of domestic bliss. “They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine,
“The Problem That Has No Name”
Betty Friedan’s writings in “The Problem That Has No Name” hopes to inform readers of the successful blindside against women that society had accomplished in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. Friedan’s findings demonstrated society’s role in convincing women to believe that their only contribution to society was as a housewife, and that nothing more from a woman was to be desired. Feminine propaganda encouraged girls from a young age that what was to be desired in life wasn’t success separate from a man, but rather following from a set of feminine rules that would eventually secure her a husband and guarantee her a life of domestic bliss. “They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine,