Where are you from? BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or ...

In a pivotal scene, she’s confronted by feminist author Betty Friedan, who wants to know why she is holding women back. The doyenne of domesticity explains that it’s all about women having the ...

And as an attorney, her work informed feminist leaders Betty Friedan (above), Shirley Chisholm and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—who cited Murray as coauthor on her landmark gender-equality case in 1971.

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research into how women felt about their lives in the early 1960s. She published her findings in a book called The Feminine Mystique (1963), which ...

In the 1950s, more women began to challenge their roles as mainly housewives and mothers. Many wanted to begin their own professional careers, in jobs that were more traditionally male occupations.