Betty Friedan

Question 1

BF support for campaigns

Answer 1

Gave strong support to campaigns for greater racial and sexual equality

Question 2

BF women’s rights

Answer 2

“The feminine mystique”

Women restrained by a lack of formal equality and by pervasive societal attitudes that undermined their rationality and autonomy.

Question 3

BF promoted state action to….

Answer 3

Promoted state action to correct imbalances of rights

Question 4

BF - legal equality

Answer 4

• challenged oppressive laws and societal norms that limited women’s roles, continuing Wollstonecraft’s fight for women’s rights.
  Key figure in advocating for equal rights amendment in the US,

Question 5

BF - equal opportunity

Answer 5

• women were restrained not only by a lack of formal equality but also by pervasive societal attitudes that undermined their rationality and autonomy.
• called for state intervention to dismantle these barriers
  Enactment of laws to prohibit discrimination based on gender, and supported measures such as affirmative action to ensure that women had not only equal rights on paper but also genuine equality of opportunity to succeed.