Betty friedan

Betty Friedan

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  • The Feminine Mystique

    The Feminine Mystique
    Betty Friedan realized that her job as a housewife was not full-filling enough. This led her to start a survey in a reunion with her past college classmates. She found that many women were not happy with their traditional housewives. Betty Friedan wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, which later became one of the best-selling books. This book led attention that women can do more than being a wife and a mother.

  • National Organization for Women

    National Organization for Women
    Friedan became the first president of the National Organization for Women in 1966 and worked with Pauli Murray and Aileen Hernandez. Friedan and many activists fought for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which implements that discrimination in the workplace is forbidden.

  • Women's Strike for Equality

    Women's Strike for Equality
    In 1970, the National Organization Women started the Women's Strike for Equality and celebrated the 50th anniversary that gave women that right to vote. Women stopped working to raise attention that they are not paid enough for their work. Activists also demanded for free termination of pregnancy, free childcare, and equality in the work place.

  • National Women's Political Caucus

    National Women's Political Caucus
    In 1971, National Women's Political Caucus was co-founded by Friedan, feminist Gloria Steinem, two of the congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and Bella Abzug. They believed that in order to accomplish gender equality, they will also have to participate in political. Since then many women became lawmakers and they united to to fight stop sex discrimination.

  • Refences

    History. National Women's Political Caucus. (n.d.). Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://www.nwpc.org/history/. The National Women's Political Caucus: A brief history. Gender on the Ballot. (2019, July 29). Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://www.genderontheballot.org/nwpc/. Cohen, S. (2015, August 26). Women's Equality Day: The history of when women went on strike. Time. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from https://time.com/4008060/women-strike-equality-1970/.