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  • Betty Villemarette dies; helped win benefits for ex-CIA spouses (14 Mar 2010 08:39)

    ... Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 14, 2010 Housewives had Betty Friedan. CIA wives had Betty Villemarette. For almost two decades, Mrs. Villemarette served the agency ...

  • The 'femivore': New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback? (14 Mar 2010 20:15)

    ... Perhaps the most important element here is that of "choice." It was feminists like Betty Friedan who liberated the Betty Drapers of the world, not Swanson's frozen dinners. Processed-food manufacturers ...

  • A warning about being a stay-at-home mom (12 Mar 2010 16:55)

    ... birthday parties, coffee klatches. Shy, demure and terribly pretty, this waif has embraced what Betty Friedan would soon christen the feminine mystique: a life of stay-at-home bliss, ferrying her kids ...

  • When women got out of the home and into a life (12 Mar 2010 11:45)

    ... certainties, this is a book to make you count your blessings. I once met Betty Friedan, when she came to the Cambridge Union to take part in a debate on ...

  • Chicken keeping as a feminist act (13 Mar 2010 19:15)

    ... loses her job or the frugal homemaker who can count her chickens? is the Betty Friedan of the femivores. ...

  • Guest column: Inheriting an old problem (12 Mar 2010 06:00)

    ... it would help to pay more attention to what Martin Luther King Jr. and Betty Friedan 0actually advocated. Sensible people realize reality is inherently unfair, but some unfairness is artificial. ...

  • The 1960s: The Women's Movement (12 Mar 2010 15:15)

    ... Kati Marton in Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History. "In 1963 Betty Friedan published her book in which she claimed that 'the problem that has no name ...

  • Wiki-feminism is true mistake (10 Mar 2010 06:58)

    ... the vote did not make women equal members of our society. Feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem fought for abortion rights, an equal rights amendment to the constitution ...

  • Guest column: On even ground (10 Mar 2010 10:36)

    ... linked with meritocratic principles. Equality of opportunity is what Martin Luther King, Jr. and Betty Friedan advocated: It is the design in which everyone has the same opportunity to succeed ...

  • Students look to 'save our history' (11 Mar 2010 09:37)

    ... general in the U.S. Air Force and the commander of the Tuskegee Airmen; and Betty Friedan, feminist and author of “The Feminine Mystique.” Any discussion of both legal and illegal ...

  • The battle for women's rights marches on (9 Mar 2010 08:16)

    ... came to something of a climax with the activities of such prominent names as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. In 1968 the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress but ...

  • Rethinking Apathy on Women's Day (8 Mar 2010 12:16)

    ... early feminists who bravely broke the rules in a male-dominated world. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, among others. They all helped pave the way to a more ...

  • Major steps forward for women (7 Mar 2010 13:17)

    ... Organization for Women) is founded in the United States by activist and feminist author Betty Friedan, followed by the Women's Liberation Movement. The feminist movement quickly spreads across the Western ...

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