Speech By: Gabby pennella
Hi everyone! Today I will be sharing with you on how Betty Friedan made a big change on women discrimination in the early 1900's. But first off, let me introduce myself. I am gabby pennella and I am 14. I play Volleyball and babysit. I am interested in this topic because if it weren't for Betty Friedan and many other people, women wouldn't be as equal as men. In the early, maybe mid- 1900's, women were treated much differently than men. Not in a good way either. Also, women didn't even have personal rights. Such as birth control, abortion or even roles in marriage if things were like this today, it wouldn't turn out so well. Only because women do all of the things that they couldn't do back then. But a very strong woman named Betty Friedan makes one of the biggest changes in women's history. …show more content…
She lived like any other girl would back then. Her mother was a housewife while her dad owned a jewelry store. Much later, Betty graduated college with a bachelors degree in psychology. Not what an average woman would get at the time. After that, she became a newspaper editor. That was one of the few jobs a woman had at the time. But somewhere around that timeframe, she got married to Carl Friedan. And when she had to go on maternity leave in between children, guess what? They fired her! They were clearly not very understanding of the issue. While her husband worked, she was a housewife. She was obviously very
Hi everyone! Today I will be sharing with you on how Betty Friedan made a big change on women discrimination in the early 1900's. But first off, let me introduce myself. I am gabby pennella and I am 14. I play Volleyball and babysit. I am interested in this topic because if it weren't for Betty Friedan and many other people, women wouldn't be as equal as men. In the early, maybe mid- 1900's, women were treated much differently than men. Not in a good way either. Also, women didn't even have personal rights. Such as birth control, abortion or even roles in marriage if things were like this today, it wouldn't turn out so well. Only because women do all of the things that they couldn't do back then. But a very strong woman named Betty Friedan makes one of the biggest changes in women's history. …show more content…
She lived like any other girl would back then. Her mother was a housewife while her dad owned a jewelry store. Much later, Betty graduated college with a bachelors degree in psychology. Not what an average woman would get at the time. After that, she became a newspaper editor. That was one of the few jobs a woman had at the time. But somewhere around that timeframe, she got married to Carl Friedan. And when she had to go on maternity leave in between children, guess what? They fired her! They were clearly not very understanding of the issue. While her husband worked, she was a housewife. She was obviously very