News about Betty Friedan, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Betty Friedan, born in Peoria, was a trailblazing and sometimes controversial figure in the feminist movement.

Friedan, one of the founders of the National Organization of Women and a stalwart supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, spearheaded the second wave of feminism until challenged by women’s ...

After reading Rachel Shteir’s thoughtful and nuanced essay, “The Abandonment of Betty Friedan” (The Chronicle Review, September 11), I want to suggest that Friedan’s critics need to ...

BOSTON -- This is what I remembered when the news of Betty Friedan's death on her 85th birthday came over the Internet. I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women's Strike ...

As the website for The National Women’s History Museum notes, Betty Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women and was “one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of ...

When Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique — the now classic book that turns 50 next week and is generally credited with launching the modern women’s movement in America — unmarried ...

In recent weeks, media outlets from Newsweek to the Times have zeroed in on the George scoop, an explosive excerpt from Betty Friedan’s memoir Life So Far.

Just as Simone de Beauvoir was the founder of the first wave of the feminist movement with the publication of her book “The Second Sex” in 1949, Betty Friedan (1921-2006) ...

Betty Friedan had a thing about floor care. Mopping the linoleum, scrubbing the bathroom tile, vacuuming a mere twice weekly -- this humdrum trope runs through "The Feminine Mystique" with the ...

What Betty Friedan Knew Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.