betty friedan

     

Her 2000 book "Life So Far" includes how she wrote "The Feminine Mystique"

Trivia about betty friedan

  • In her 1963 book she used the term "Feminine Mystique" to describe the image of women
  • After leaving the presidency of NOW in 1970, she wrote a column for McCall's
  • In her efforts to gain equal rights for women, she founded NOW in 1966 & became its first president
  • In "The Feminine Mystique", she wrote of the suburban wife "afraid to ask even of herself... 'Is this all?'"