Abstract
Betty Friedan was a feminist writer and activist in the post‐World War II women's movement for over forty years. She was best known for her first and most popular work, The Feminine Mystique (1963), which exposed the ill effects of rigid postwar gender roles that implored women to forgo careers and return or stay home to be housewives and mothers. To substantiate claims that women were fundamentally dissatisfied with these roles, she employed social scientific methodology and queried her Smith College cohort. The cause of women's discontent, Friedan suggested, resided in the legal, political, social, economic, and educational factors that mandated strict and polarized gender roles in American culture.
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