-
1947 BCE
Personal Life
Friedan married Carl Friedan on 1947 and went on to have three children: Daniel, Jonathan and Emely. -
1943 BCE
University of California, Berkeley
She spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a fellowship for graduate work in psychology. -
1942 BCE
Graduated College
Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with major in psychology from all-female Smith College -
First book published a "The Feminine Mystique" book
When Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, more than one-third of all women were in the work force. Although many women longed to be housewives, only women with leisure time and money could actually shape their identities on the model of the feminine mystique -
Second book "It changed my life"
Writings on the women's movements -
The third book "the second stage"
Of feminism, a movement intended to liberate women from their traditional role as only mothers and house-wives, was coming to an end with the deadline for the ratification of The Equal Rights Amendment, and that it was time to take feminism to a new stage, which could better deal with the issues of a new generation of women -
The Fourth Book "the mountain of age "
Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. -
The Fifth book "beyond gender "
A basic restructuring of our economy is needed now," writes Betty Friedan in her latest book, Beyond Gender. "And this restructuring can't be accomplished in terms of women versus men, black versus white, old versus young, conservative versus liberal -
The Sixth book" life so far "
It was Betty Freidan herself, in Life So Far, who spoke about her life and career and told us what it was all like from the inside.
