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As an icon in the women’s rights movement, Betty Friedan did more than write about confining gender stereotypes but she became a force for change. Susan Oliver’s bibliography captivates Betty Friedan’s leading role against the sexual inequality between men and woman during her lifetime. Born as a daughter of Jewish parents in Peoria, Illinois Betty saw in her own eyes the sacrifices women were making through her mother’s loss of fulfilling a career in journalism. Once she married, Betty’s mother had to give up her job at a newspaper and latter on urged Betty to peruse a career in journalism. Betty was able to graduate from Smith College with a bachelor’s degree and did one year’s worth of work in graduate school at the University of California, she choose to work in New York as a journalist instead of accepting a fellowship to go straight on to getting her PhD in psychology. Unlike her mother Betty did not end her career after marrying her husband Carl, and continued......

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