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...been more than 20 years since Betty Friedan wrote her watershed work on women and their role in American society. The Feminine Mystique analyzed a series of ailments and injustices against women which raised the nation's public and political consciousness and helped initiate the Woman's Movement...
...later book, The Second Stage, Friedan would call the syndrome suffered by this new generation of women the "I'm not a feminist but" disease. Women expected to be doctors, or CEOs, or astronauts, expected equal wages and compassionate employers, expected reproductive freedom as if that was the way it had always been. They believed that the setbacks they suffered as women were personal, not political...
Appearing on a television talk show recently, Betty Friedan mentioned in passing that women are opening new businesses at a faster rate than men are. TIME Reporter-Researcher Leslie Whitaker, who happened to be watching, immediately picked up on the remark. She called Friedan, who told her that she had got her statistics from the Small Business Administration. "When the SBA verified that women were in fact the most dynamic portion of the small- business community," says Whitaker, "I knew I was on to a good story." The result: this week's special report on women entrepreneurs, who these days...
...Says Gans: "They ask, 'Will I regret this? What is wrong with me that I didn't want a baby all along?' " (She notes, however, that she also counsels many women who regret having had children.) Some discontented women blame feminism for encouraging their childless state. Feminist Author Betty Friedan, who relishes her role as the mother of two children, sharply disagrees. She insists that feminists are addressing the problems of working mothers. "Half of the women who are childless at 40 are not childless by real choice," says Friedan. "They have not had children because they are in male...
...provocative pose, however, immediately raised questions of both propriety and professionalism. "Coy, pretentious, self-conscious," sniffed Mademoiselle Editor in Chief Amy Levin Cooper. "It's about as appropriate as anchormen appearing in beefcake pictures," declared CBS News', Mike Wallace. Lamented Feminist Betty Friedan: "It reinforces the idea that to get ahead, women have to define themselves as sex objects...