Many, and women too, believed that women should bear no burden of such depression as they had been blessed by better standard of living than the rest of the world and husbands that supported their lives. Their life was confined to domestic work and childbearing while the husbands managing the world. Women were expected to conform to “standard” femininity, which final end is to becoming a dedicated housewife. The Problem That Has No Name particularly highlights the struggle of American women to handle the emptiness and sense of dissatisfaction during economic boom in the 1950s and 60s. Although second-wave feminism spread out across the Western world, the activities carried out in the United States has received, perhaps, more attention because the country was also experiencing major economic and social changes during the time. Second-wave feminism, as it is known as, generally include issues of family, the workplace, domestic violence, reproductive rights, among others. The book has been credited with provoking American women to begin a period of discussing wider women’s issues beyond enfranchisement and equal property rights and fighting for gender equality in the increasingly industrialised world at that time. The Problem That Has No Name is a selection taken from Betty Friedan’s seminal book, The Feminine Mystique, which was published in 1963.
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