Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

Betty Friedan was an early leader of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s and '70s. Published in 1963, her book, "The Feminine Mystique," voiced the frustrations of millions of American women at ...

I write this on the anniversary of Betty Friedan’s birth and her death. For years I have gleefully recounted “my Betty Friedan story” over meals or beers with colleagues and grad students. I have even ...

The impact of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique on American women has been hotly debated ever since the book hit the best-seller lists in 1963. In the last year, Friedan’s legacy has been the ...

If you’ve watched any of “Mrs. America,” the star-studded miniseries about the battle of the Equal Rights Amendment, you may be wondering how accurately it captures this divisive chapter in American ...

A look at the legacy of Betty Friedan, author and pioneer of the feminist movement then a discussion the impact of Friedan's life with NewsHour essayist Anne Taylor Flemming, who was a friend of ...

Betty Friedan, who championed the once-radical assertion that women have the right to their own dreams and not only those of their husbands and childen, was eulogized Monday as a feminist pioneer, ...

BETTY FRIEDAN: I was born and grew up in Peoria, Illinois, which you might say is the middle of the middle of America, what used to be a synonym almost: "hick," "hayseed" or "will it play in Peoria".

Betty Friedan certainly deserves all the post-mortem attention she is receiving on the golden anniversary of the publication of The Feminine Mystique. No woman did more to spur the feminist awakening ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Democratic senator from New York. I am saddened by the passing of Betty Friedan, one of America’s most notable voices. Through a life of social activism and powerful ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When ...

When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ended ...