The Problem with No Name

The Feminine Mystique was written by Betty Friedan in 1963.  This book was written mainly from personal experience.  Women were suffering from the problem that has no name.  This gave a vague sense of dissatisfaction.   The social norm of the time period has women run the household, not holding a “man’s” occupation.  The idea was that women will run the home and have children, nothing else.  This created an unequal relationship between the wife and the husband.  “Woman had not gotten enough out of life”.  Helen Gurley Brown was another author in the era who stated that men and women had different standards regarding intercourse before marriage.