Journalist Kati Marton in Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History. "In 1963 Betty Friedan published her book The Feminine Mystique, in which she claimed that, 'the problem that has no name burst like a boil through the image of the happy American housewife.’” In the same year this book was published, an American woman, the physicist Maria Goepper-Mayer, won a Nobel Prize for the first time.
During the civil rights and anti-war movement became popular and had a growing number of women bombarded with different images about work and family. One in five women with children under the age of six and nearly one fourth of women whose children were over sixteen help jobs in the 60’s. Their pay was only 60% of the male’s pay rate at this time. Although the equal pay legislation passed in 1963, that did not solve the problem of lower paying jobs that were classed as female. In 1966, the National Organization for Women was formed. In 1968, feminists protested at the Miss America contest in Atlantic City, making the argument that the pageant was sexist.
Thanks to the hard working feminists, us women have just as many rights as men. These women will always be known for all they have done for the future and the rights for all women.