Betty Friedan

The Second Stage

Second wave feminism and women's continued struggle for equality and autonomy

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Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan

American feminist whose The Feminine Mystique is credited with sparking second-wave feminism by naming 'the problem that has no name'—the dissatisfaction of educated American women confined to domesticity. She co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966.

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