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Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the main…
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culture · American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006) · journalist · writer · women's rights activist · sociologist · psychologist · social activist · also Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein, Bettye Naomi Goldstein, Friedan
Born 4 February 1921 · Died 4 February 2006 · Q234604
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Kto wie, kim może stać się kobieta, kiedy nareszcie będzie mogła być sobą? Kobiety zaledwie zaczęły poszukiwać swojej tożsamości. Nadchodzi jednak czas, gdy głos kobiecej mistyki nie będzie już dłużej zagłuszał tego głosu wewnętrznego, który nakazuje kobietom dążyć do duchowej pełni.
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Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
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2025· 1 entry
Women's eNews: Betty Friedan Woke Women From Mystique of Sleep – Women's eNews
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Who was Betty Friedan? The feminist pioneer and author was a Peoria native
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2023· 1 entry
The Forward: Revisiting Betty Friedan’s Jewish legacy through the first biography of her in decades
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2022· 2 entries
PBS: Betty Friedan Interview
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The board of trustees of the Peoria Public Schools school district considered renaming Washington Gifted School after Friedan, but a board member brought up comments by Friedan perceived to be discriminatory against LGBT
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2021· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Writer and activist Betty Friedan was born 100 years ago today
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2020· 2 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Betty Friedan is the ‘Moses’ of the women’s movement in ‘Mrs. America’
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RealClearPolitics: Betty Friedan's 1970 Call to Women: Strike for Equality
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2014· 1 entry
A biography of Friedan was added to the American National Biography Online (ANB)
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2013· 1 entry
Time: What Betty Friedan Saw Coming
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2006· 5 entries
The Nation: Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
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Died 2006-02-04.
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“We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it’s hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!”
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“Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”
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“Kto wie, kim może stać się kobieta, kiedy nareszcie będzie mogła być sobą? Kobiety zaledwie zaczęły poszukiwać swojej tożsamości. Nadchodzi jednak czas, gdy głos kobiecej mistyki nie będzie już dłużej zagłuszał tego głosu wewnętrznego, który nakazuje kobietom dążyć do duchowej pełni.”
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2000· 1 entry
"I'm more relaxed about the whole issue now
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1995· 1 entry
At the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, she found advice given by Chinese authorities to taxi drivers that naked lesbians would be "cavorting" in their cars so that the drivers should ha
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1993).
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1982· 1 entry
After the second wave, she wrote a book for the post-feminist 1980s called The Second Stage, about family life, premised on women having conquered social and legal obstacles
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1980· 1 entry
Believed abortion should be in the context of "the choice to have children", a formulation supported by the Roman Catholic priest organizing Catholic participation in the White House Conference on Families for that y
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1977· 1 entry
At the National Women's Conference, she seconded a lesbian rights resolution "which everyone thought I would oppose" in order to "preempt any debate" and move on to other issues she believed were more important and less
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1975).
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1973· 2 entries
Friedan was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II
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Friedan founded the First Women's Bank and Trust Company
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1972· 1 entry
Friedan unsuccessfully ran as a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention in support of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
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1971· 2 entries
Friedan, along with many other leading women's movement leaders, including Gloria Steinem (with whom she had a legendary rivalry) founded the National Women's Political Caucus
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Friedan joined other leading feminists to establish the National Women's Political Caucus
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1970· 4 entries
The 50th anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution, Friedan organized the national Women's Strike for Equality, and led a march of an estimated 20,000 women in New York City
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After stepping down as NOW's first president, Friedan organized the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women t
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NOW, with Friedan leading the cause, was instrumental in the U
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Friedan led other feminists in derailing the nomination of Supreme Court nominee G
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1968· 1 entry
Friedan signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War
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1966· 2 entries
Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men
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Friedan co-founded, and became the first president of the National Organization for Women
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1963· 1 entry
It depicted the roles of women in industrial societies, especially the full-time homemaker role which Friedan deemed stifling
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1957· 1 entry
Friedan conducted a survey of college graduates, focusing on their education, subsequent experiences and satisfaction with their current lives
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1952· 1 entry
Because she was pregnant with her second child
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1947· 1 entry
She married Carl Friedan (né Friedman), a theater producer, in 1947 while working at UE News.
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1943· 1 entry
Spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a fellowship for graduate work in psychology with Erik Erikson
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1941· 1 entry
Became editor-in-chief of SCAN (Smith College Associated News)
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1921· 2 entries
In Peoria, Illinois, to Harry and Miriam (Horwitz) Goldstein, whose secular Jewish families were from Russia and Hungary
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Born 1921-02-04.
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