children and a home. But 17 years after her death, many retrospectives have summed up Friedan as the leader of a women’s movement that outgrew her. A new biography from Rachel Shteir, “Betty ...

And then I got married and I took maternity leave, but continued to work. BETTY FRIEDAN: When the children were little, we lived in a wonderful garden apartment community that actually had been ...

The first edition of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book ... The problem with modern women was not family and children, she argued, but the idea that family should be your entire life.

Betty Friedan was a journalist who carried out research ... laws to guarantee maternity leave from work when women had children laws to ensure women had access to contraception and abortion ...