Betty Friedan's Equality For Women

Betty Friedan was born on February 4, 1921, in Peoria, Illinois. She was known for her active participation in women’s rights back in the 1950s. She went out of the norm to create equality for females. Back in those days, not only women but minorities had barely any rights in society. Only white men in the United States benefitted, where they were the only ones who had control, be it businesses, the government, and even in the family. Women were not given any say in the household, and all odds were against them. Betty Friedan hence took a stand and wrote The Feminine Mystique, co-founded the National Organization for women, established the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and created the National Women’s Political Caucus, hoping to be able to change the way women are viewed, giving them more rights.

Back in the 1950s, per ________, women who worked full-time, year-round made 59 cents on average for every dollar earned by men. It was unfair for women to be making a lesser amount of money despite doing the same jobs as the men. This treatment was because women were inferior to the men, which can regularly found in advertisements back then. In one of them, one man was stepping on a woman, where it says “__________,” this hence portrays the woman as submissive and inferior.

There were unrealistic job requirements when hiring females

Women can do the same jobs as men and might be even better at it. Hence, she felt that women should not be restricted to what they want to do, especially if it interests them and makes them happy. She wants to create “a social revolution by dispelling the myths that all women wanted to be happy homemakers.” Women were forced to do whatever they want, as mentioned by _______, where women denied their desires for the sake of familial