Betty Friedan was famous for her movements towards womens rights. She was a 49 year old, divorced mother of 3, when she marched down the streets in New York, for the Womens rights acts. She founded NOW(National Organization for Women) (reluctantly) in 1966, due to peoples feelings towards her. She wrote a tremendous amount of articles and a book named 'The Feminine Mystique'. Betty was a great house wife until she started seeing how much better off she would be on her own. After a trip around Europe, on her own, Betty decided that she could live without her husband Carl. Soon after, they filed for a divorce in Mexico...Betty was no longer held down by societies strings.
Betty (front row, center) posed with her fellow members of her high school literary society. She participated in a number of clubs devoted to drama and writing at school.
This is Betty Friedan with her husband, Carl, and her first son Daniel. In the earlier years of Friedans marriage, she penned articles that glorified married life. Yet at the same time, she was anything BUT a truly conventional housewife.
Betty is one of the leading figures in the women's rights movements. She founded the single, largest group of feminist in the United States. The Nationl Organization for Women, Also known as "NOW", in 1966. Four strugling years later, at NOW's annual convention, Betty revieled her planes for the March for Equality, a nationwide demonstration in favor of womens rights.
Betty was commonly seen speaking at rallies during the late 1960's, after she founded NOW. She is speaking out on the behave of womens rights.
Betty exchanged gifts with Pope Paul VI in 1973, at the Vatican. Betty had requested an audience with the pontiff with the hope that she might persuade him to alter his traditional stance on the issues like abortion and birth control.
This picture is Betty and her daughter, posing in their living room for a snapshot. For five years, betty had to juggle her time with her family and her research for her book.
