Bio: (1921-2006) American feminist theorist. Betty Friedan has taught at many universities during her career, the most important being Cornell and Colombia. Friedan is one of the founders of the second wave of feminism. In the book The Feminine Mystique (1966), she, based on her own experience, but also the experience of other women concludes that patriarchal society imposes the role of a housewife on women. The imposed role of housewife, which is fulfilled by the fact that the woman maintains the household and the family, made women prisoners. Friedan calls on women to reject the imposed role of a happy and tame housewife and to move from the family to the public sphere. Women should work actively to achieve career success, as well as to constantly fight for social and political gender equality. This book, which has sold over three million copies, made Friedan a spokesperson for the women's movement, so she co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and become its first president, and later formed the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, as well as the National Women's Political Caucus.

Main works

The Feminine Mystique (1963);

It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976);

The Second Stage (1981);

The Fountain of Age (1993);

Beyond Gender (1997).