Betty Friedan Taking A Stand For Women's Rights Summary

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We chose Betty Friedan: Taking a Stand for Women’s Rights because we wanted to explore the feminist movements in the 1900s. Our group had a growing curiosity about how a housewife lived in the 1900s and how Betty Friedan impacted the society she lived in. We also wanted to learn about how a particular housewife lived and felt about how she lived her life. Within time, our organization began learning about how she changed the society, ¨The problem that has no name¨, and Betty Friedan’s background. With the help of google scholar, we were able to find credible websites that helped us find most of our research and information. The research then brought us to a choice for what category we wanted to choose. We chose to use the category of exhibit

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