This ideology seeks to challenge the definitions of femininity that grew out of the ideas of the second-wave, arguing that the second-wave over-emphasized experiences of upper middle-class white women. She believed that women were being held back from their full potential because they were limited to only a number of jobs that were "acceptable" for women. Si te gusta nuestro trabajo, apóyanos tú también. Her mother encouraged her to attend Smith College after high school in 1938. Divorce. Her thought points to such a need but does not provide it. She regretted comparing the suburban housewife to the concentration camp victim because, she claimed, this contradicted her own experience as a mother and the genuine good experienced in motherhood.REF She also came to believe that women who made themselves beautiful in order to attract men were no longer pitiful sex seekers, but rather people expressing their very human needs for intimacy and love.REF. This made it easier for women to delay marriage for their careers and made sex more widely available to men and women outside of marriage—thereby further unsettling the dependability of the marriage bond. Feminist education intentionally puts a thumb on the scale away from family life and toward careers. . Among her other accomplishments, Friedan was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). They had won women the legal right to own property and to vote. Women practiced sacrificial love and care for others instead of going out into the world and competing. Older, “first wave” feminists argued for the extension of basic rights to women, such as the right to own property, the right to vote, and the end of marital coverture—a legal term meaning government recognition of wives under the “cover” of their husbands. “Without child care,” Friedan learned from Swedish feminists, “it’s all just talk.” In 1967, NOW demanded “paid maternity leave, federally mandated child care facilities, and a tax deduction for home and child care expenses for working parents.”REF Such programs would free women from the burdens of motherhood so that they could pursue creative work outside the home and would inaugurate a society where both women and men could devote themselves to careers. She surveyed her classmates before attending her 15th college reunion in 1957. All of this was accomplished so that women could, as the 1966 NOW manifesto read, have “full participation in the mainstream of American society” and “develop their fullest human potential.”REF Companies would soon have to take affirmative action to secure a sufficient number of women to ensure immunity from charges of discrimination. Los documentos de investigación sobre Betty Friedan y discutir la vida y la carrera de uno de los miembros más prominentes del movimiento feminista americano. El caso es que la autora, (¿felizmente?) This is its greatest, most long-lasting success—but it also causes social problems and personal unhappiness for many women. Genuinely free and fulfilled women should instead choose a different, more career-oriented destiny. The ideal life as mother and wife toward which women had been educated was debilitating and false, Friedan argued, and women who lived such a life were not really happy or fulfilled, no matter what they thought. Her work begins with a dismissal of the previous understanding of womanhood. Friedan later worried that radical feminists were taking her principles too far, but she could not resist the movement’s direction. La publicidad vende una situación ideal para las mujeres, felices amas de casa con todas las comodidades, pero la realidad es otra. Her Feminine Mystique aimed to expose previous generations of women as unwittingly guided by a “mystique” or a set of myths that drew them to motherhood and domestic life. She served four years before stepping down in 1970. In her book, she describes a woman's life in the 1950's as completely centred around being a mother and housewife. Friedan believed the future of civilization depended upon women choosing a new, career-focused way of life. Many of the long-range changes she sought have come to pass. No tengo espacio en este artículo para desarrollar lo tremendamente mal que ha envejecido La mística de la feminidad (1963), para poder señalar y analizar como me gustaría la misoginia que sobrevuela estas páginas, la homofobia, la lesbofobia, la sexofobia, los sinsentidos, la eterna culpa que señala a las madres, mientras la ausencia o violenta presencia de los padres en los hogares no ocupan líneas ni responsabilidad alguna en el pensamiento de nuestra gran feminista Betty.