In 1970, after stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote.

At its first conference in October 1966, Friedan was elected NOW's first president, and her fame as the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique helped attract thousands of women to the organization.

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and original suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100, 000 on Women's Equality Day ( August 26 ), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.

In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post ; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem ; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of " docile " women.

In 1966, Friedan founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women, which aimed to bring women " into the mainstream of American society now fully equal partnership with men ".

" And in February 2006, shortly after Friedan's death, the feminist writer Germaine Greer published an article in The Guardian, in which she described Friedan as pompous and egotistic, somewhat demanding, and sometimes selfish, as evidenced by repeated incidents during a tour of Iran in 1972.

In 1963 Betty Friedan, influenced by The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique in which she explicitly objected to the mainstream media image of women, stating that placing women at home limited their possibilities, and wasted talent and potential.

In 1957, Friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her former Smith College classmates for their 15th anniversary reunion ; the results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology, media, and advertising.

Friedan notes that this is in contrast to the 1930s, at which time women's magazines often featured confident and independent heroines, many of whom were involved in careers.

Chapter 6: Friedan criticizes functionalism, which attempted to make the social sciences more credible by studying the institutions of society as if they were parts of a social body, as in biology.

Chapter 7: Friedan discusses the change in women's education from the 1940s to the early 1960s, in which many women's schools concentrated on non-challenging classes that focused mostly on marriage, family, and other subjects deemed suitable for women, as educators influenced by functionalism felt that too much education would spoil women's femininity and capacity for sexual fulfillment.

Friedan ends her book by promoting education and meaningful work as the ultimate method by which American women can avoid becoming trapped in the feminine mystique, calling for a drastic rethinking of what it means to be feminine, and offering several educational and occupational suggestions.

Horowitz explored Friedan ’ s engagement with the women's movement before she began to work on her book, The Feminine Mystique and argues that Friedan ’ s feminism did not start in the 1950s but rather before that in the 1940s.

O ' Leary was referring to the Lavender Menace, a description by second wave feminist Betty Friedan for attempts by members of the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) to distance themselves from the perception of NOW as a haven for lesbians.

Friedan was also a strong supporter of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that passed the United States House of Representatives ( by a vote of 354-24 ) and Senate ( 84-8 ) following intense pressure by women's groups led by NOW in the early 1970s.

In 1966 Friedan and others established the National Organization for Women, or NOW, to act as an NAACP for women.

Cornering a large table at the conference luncheon, so that they could start organizing before they had to rush for planes, each of those women chipped in five dollars, Betty Friedan wrote the acronym NOW on a napkin, and the National Organization for Women was created.

* Twenty-eight women, among them Betty Friedan, founded the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) to function as a civil rights organization for women.

The myth of the origin of the phrase " Lavender Menace " is that it was first used in 1969 by Betty Friedan, president of NOW, to describe the threat that she believed associations with lesbianism posed to NOW and the emerging women's movement.

The term female chauvinism has been adopted by critics of some types or aspects of feminism ; second-wave feminist Betty Friedan is a notable example.

"' o suppress free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong ,' says Friedan.

Friedan is credited for starting the contemporary feminist movement and writing a book that is one of the cornerstones of American feminism.

Allan Wolf, in The Mystique of Betty Friedan writes: “ She helped to change not only the thinking but the lives of many American women, but recent books throw into question the intellectual and personal sources of her work .” Although there have been some debates on Friedan ’ s work in The Feminine Mystique since its publication, there is no doubt that her work for equality for women was sincere and committed.

One of their sons, Daniel Friedan, is a noted theoretical physicist.

The movement is usually believed to have begun in 1963, when " Mother of the Movement " Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F. Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality.

The Feminine Mystique is a nonfiction book by Betty Friedan first published in 1963.

Friedan points out that this is unproven and that Margaret Mead, a prominent functionalist, had a flourishing career as an anthropologist.

The Fountain of Age is a book written by Betty Friedan, who also wrote The Feminine Mystique.

" British novelist Fay Weldon called the book " essential reading for the New Woman ", and Betty Friedan wrote in Allure magazine that " The Beauty Myth and the controversy it is eliciting could be a hopeful sign of a new surge of feminist consciousness.

Betty Friedan, in the Feminine Mystique, openly criticizes Mead for contributing to infantilizing women through functional anthropology, in Chapter 6, " The Functional Freeze, The Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead.

The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement ; the march led by Friedan in New York City alone attracted over 50, 000 women and men.

She claimed that women could have it all, " love, sex, and money ", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage.

In 1971 Rep. Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem founded the National Women's Political Caucus to advocate for more women and feminists in elective office.

In a foreshadowing of Betty Friedan she pithily summed up the hiatus between male worship of the goddess and emancipation " Future societies may build temples to motherhood, but only to lock women into them.

The movement grew with legal victories such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court ruling of 1965 ; in 1966 Friedan joined other women and men to found the National Organization for Women.

* On August 26, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage in the U. S., tens of thousands of women across the nation participated in the Women's Strike for Equality, organized by Betty Friedan, to demand equal rights.

The Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called " the problem that has no name "— the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Friedan claims in her memoirs that her boyfriend at the time pressured her into turning down a Ph. D fellowship for further study and abandoning her academic career.

Lisa Fredenksen Bohannon in Woman ’ s work: The story of Betty Friedan goes deep into Friedan ’ s personal life and writes about her relationship with her mother.

Betty Friedan has influenced many individuals into writing about her and topics about women's rights and equality.

Although the expression " on the left " covers a range of politics, many well-known figures " on the left " have been of Jews, for instance, Karl Marx, Moses Hess, Herbert Marcuse, Murray Bookchin, Saul Alinsky, Tristan Tzara, Leon Trotsky, Leon Blum, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Laski, Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, or Howard Zinn, who were born into Jewish families and have various degrees of connection to Jewish communities, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition or the Jewish religion in its many variants.

" Friedan also points out that Freud's unproven concept of " penis envy " had been used to label women who wanted careers as neurotic, and that the popularity of Freud's work and ideas elevated the " feminine mystique " of female fulfillment in housewifery into a " scientific religion " that most women were not educated enough to criticize.

Chapter 9: Friedan shows that advertisers tried to encourage housewives to think of themselves as professionals who needed many specialized products in order to do their jobs, while discouraging housewives from having actual careers, since that would mean they would not spend as much time and effort on housework and therefore would not buy as many household products, cutting into advertisers ' profits.