Situating her study of women in the post-World War II era, Friedan argued that when men returned home after the war, women—who had stepped in to fill the jobs men had left in order to fight in the war—were expected to return to the home and to perform more-suitable “feminine” ac...
Bettye Goldstein graduated in 1942 fromSmith Collegewith a degree inpsychologyand, after a year of graduate work at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, settled inNew York City. She worked at various jobs until 1947, when she married Carl Friedan (divorced 1969). For 10 years thereafter she...