The Role Of Women In The 1960s

In the 1960s, Betty Friedan advanced the Second Women’s Rights Movement with her book The Feminine Mystique (“Betty Friedan”). The principles of the Movement trickled into prospective years, specifically the eighties. During the 1980s, women’s roles became more like the modernized roles known today. Woman held high-paying jobs with less scrutiny than years past, divorce and remarriage became more acceptable, career opportunities higher or equal to men grew available (Roca). However, society was still a “man’s world.” Such is that Ursula K. LeGuin gave her speech “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” about; advice for the women graduating Mills College on how to survive with “Machoman.”
LeGuin used this golden opportunity of public speaking