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11. It sounds like the fifties all over again. Betty Friedan wrote about it:
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:16 AM
Yesterday

In 1963 Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique:

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. She discusses the lives of several housewives from around the United States who were unhappy despite living in material comfort and being married with children. Friedan also questions the women's magazine, women's education system, and advertisers for creating this widespread image of women. The detrimental effects induced by this image were that it cornered women into the domestic sphere, and that it led many women to lose their own identities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

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