The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. - Betty Friedan

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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

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About Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan (4 February 1921 – 4 February 2006) was an American "second-wave" feminist best known for The Feminine Mystique, a critique of women's role as stay-at-home mothers.

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Alternative Names: Betty Naomi Goldstein Bettye Naomi Goldstein Betty Naomi Friedan
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When women take their education and their abilities seriously and put them to use, ultimately they have to compete with men. It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

The future homemaker trains for her role within the home, but the boy prepares for his by being given more independence outside the home, by his taking a “paper route” or a summer job. A provider will profit by independence, dominance, aggressiveness, competitiveness.8

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