The Feminine Mystique
Witness History: Archive 2013
English - February 19, 2013 09:00 - 9 minutes - 8.27 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1963, a frustrated American housewife, Betty Friedan, published one of the key texts in feminist thought. With its call for women to leave the home and enter the workplace, The Feminine Mystique paved the way for the women's liberation movement and became a bestseller. It called for a shakeup of the job market with maternity pay and subsidised childcare. Jo Fidgen speaks to two of Betty Friedan's children, Johnathan and Emily. The programme also contains archive recordings of Friedan herself.
Photo: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.