Betty Frieden -The Women's Liberation, 1950s

Betty Friedan is considered to be one of the most important feminists throughout history, she sparked the second wave of feminism activists in the 1950s. Previously i have shown how society during the 1950s forced women into a demeaning lifestyle that had no end and no inspiration. Attitudes created by the patriarchal society of the 1950s mean't that women's lives were dedicated to marriage, raising a family and keeping there house clean and should set aside education and job ambitions. They were objectified and seen as an image. Betty Frieden questions this attitude in her book 'The Feminine Mystique', she presents the 'problem that has no name'. This problem is simple, the lives women were leading were unfulfilling and left much to be desired in the eyes of all women of the time. Although the media and attitudes showed women being content and happy with their lives, this was merely to keep women like Betty Frieden from speaking out.