Word: friedans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yiddish for craziness]." Warren Farrell, a spokesman for the men's liberation movement, feels that Fear of Flying will help free both sexes. As women take more initiative and responsibility for their sex lives, he believes, "some of the pressure will be removed from men." Feminist Spokeswoman Betty Friedan hails the book for its humor and playfulness: "I'm sick of the bitter things that have come out of feminism...
...post is unprecedented. As Columnist Harriet Van Home wrote about the appointment: "Betty Friedan can eat her heart out, but one can't see either Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford setting up a department dealing with the feminine condition." In fact, Giscard at first tried to downgrade the Cabinet post to the head of a women's affairs bureau, but yielded when Giroud refused to accept such a position...
...that. Historically, male-dominated societies have been willing enough to accept female monarchs who came to power by succession as well as women of great charisma or excellent family connections. But more often men have been reluctant to regard women as equals, much less as superiors. According to Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique established her as the founding mother of women's liberation in the U.S.: "Women have made amazing progress. But they are hardly present in any numbers as leaders...
Between the Korean and Vietnam Wars, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique appeared, and women were suddenly left without comfortable roles in their lives. Radcliffe women had always been portrayed as high-achievers frustrated by society's restrictions, but few of the women were prepared for the revolutionary concepts that the '60s and '70s would produce in attitudes toward women. Most of the women are simply unsure about what they want to do and what they should do with their lives...
...There is no way for women to move in full personhood when they walk as freaks in a man's world," Friedan says. "But we've opened the door. Now we want to move through...