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Friedan married Carl Friedan on 1947 and went on to have three children: Daniel, Jonathan and Emely.
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She spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a fellowship for graduate work in psychology.
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Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with major in psychology from all-female Smith College
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When Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, more than one-third of all women were in the work force. Although many women longed to be housewives, only women with leisure time and money could actually shape their identities on the model of the feminine mystique
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Writings on the women's movements
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Of feminism, a movement intended to liberate women from their traditional role as only mothers and house-wives, was coming to an end with the deadline for the ratification of The Equal Rights Amendment, and that it was time to take feminism to a new stage, which could better deal with the issues of a new generation of women
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Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline.
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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 white, old versus young, conservative versus liberal
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It was Betty Freidan herself, in Life So Far, who spoke about her life and career and told us what it was all like from the inside.
