Discontentment Between Women And Women In The 1950's
Betty Friedan’s, essay The Problem That Has No Name, addresses that during the middle of the twentieth century, “books and articles by experts …show more content…
Today, women have more opportunities and are more eager to work; therefore, equality between genders is starting to balance for both men and women entering the workforce. Women are more willing to go to work for financial reasons, self-fulfillment, and because of the vast amount of childcare facilities available. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, “young women in the U.S. are now more likely than their male counterparts to earn a college degree and/or master’s degree, and women comprise half of the workforce employed in jobs requiring [extensive] education, such as management and professional jobs (Bleske, 276).” I believe this statement is true because many women, today, are so career-focused, that getting married and having a family at a young age is happening less than it was fifty or so years