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Women cannot advance as people unless men also help to solve the problems of sexual inequality, author and sociologist Betty Freidan told a crowd of about 850 at the ARCO Forum last night...
...cannot go any further as women in isolation," Freidan told the audience, adding that although the help men have offered, such as doing the laundry and clearing the table, appears minimal, they should not be criticized...
...Freidan, who spoke at the invitation of the Women's Student Coalition (WSC), the Radcliffe Forum and the Institute of Politics, challenged women at the University not "to fall into the trap of thinking that all the battles are won. There's no turning back in this revolution. You can't go back and become a housewife the way mommy used to--forget it. In the first place you'd be bored," she said...
...Freidan said a WSC questionnaire on sex discrimination distributed at the graduate schools proves that affirmative action is in critical danger...
...even sense in yourself that it's tenuous. You realize that while there is no overt discrimination to keep you from getting into graduate school, there's something missing that makes you uneasy," Freidan said...