Word: freidan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's movement enters its second stage, women face the agonizing conflicts of combining career and family without becoming "tired superwomen," Betty Freidan, first president of the National Organization of Women (NOW), said last night...
Defending her latest book--called "Second Stage."--before a crowded Kennedy School Forum, Freidan said that during "the first stage,'" "women broke through the barriers to equality...
Those early feminists never came to terms with the family, Freidan said, because they didn't deal with the reality of women's situations. The goal of the second stage, she added in the panel discussion, is to restructure homes and work so that both men and women can lead full lives...
Pauley credited Betty Freidan and other leaders of the feminist movement for creating an environment in which women are a necessary part of the work force, and for pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to create affirmative action guidelines in the broadcast industry...