Betty Friedan News & Updates

Betty Friedan Woke Women From Mystique of Sleep – Women's eNews

Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique" and the "mother of the modern women's movement" has...

Nov 02, 2025 • Women's eNews

What Betty Friedan Saw Coming

Betty Friedan, a founding member of NOW (the National Organization of Women) and author of The Femin...

Feb 15, 2013 • Time

Revisiting Betty Friedan’s Jewish legacy through the first biography of her in decades

(JTA) — When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmer...

Oct 06, 2023 • The Forward

Betty Friedan

In a conversation with the feminist writer Betty Friedan, she planted the seed that became the Natio...

Apr 24, 2026 • nytimes.com

Betty Friedan, 1921-2006

Betty Friedan is dead at 85–a brilliant, pugnacious woman who lived a big life and wrote a big boo...

Feb 09, 2006 • The Nation

How accurate is 'Mrs. America's' depiction of Betty Friedan? We checked

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tracey Ullman, left, as Betty ...

Apr 24, 2020 • Yahoo

The Triumph and Tragedy of Betty Friedan

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Moira Donegan on lessons from the life of a feminist titan....

Sep 17, 2023 • The Nation

What Mystique Did Betty Friedan Wield? Very Powerful One

It was fitting that Betty Friedan, whose book The Feminine Mystique exploded through the suburbs whe...

Feb 12, 2006 • Observer

Betty Friedan Interview

QUESTION: Betty, let's begin with the obvious time and place, your birth. Where are you from? BETTY ...

Mar 08, 2022 • PBS

Writer and activist Betty Friedan was born 100 years ago today

Writer and activist Betty Friedan was born Feb. 4, 1921. For this painting in the Smithsonian’s Na...

Feb 03, 2021 • insider.si.edu

Betty Friedan's 1970 Call to Women: Strike for Equality

Fifthteenth in a series of articles commemorating Women's History Month by spotlighting a significan...

Mar 19, 2020 • RealClearPolitics

Visionary feminist writer Betty Friedan dies at 85

Betty Friedan, the writer, thinker and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her...

Feb 05, 2006 • Houston Chronicle

Who was Betty Friedan? The feminist pioneer and author was a Peoria native

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betty Friedan is shown at Brad...

Mar 20, 2024 • Yahoo

What Betty Friedan Knew

What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the wor...

Nov 30, 2023 • The New Republic

Feminist Icon Betty Friedan Dies on 85th Birthday

A look at the legacy of Betty Friedan, author and pioneer of the feminist movement then a discussion...

Feb 05, 2006 • PBS

Betty Friedan is the ‘Moses’ of the women’s movement in ‘Mrs. America’

In the FX series, one character says women were “wandering in the wilderness for 40 years” befor...

Apr 29, 2020 • Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Contextualize Betty Friedan’s Work in Social Structure of Her Time

After reading Rachel Shteir’s thoughtful and nuanced essay, “The Abandonment of Betty Friedan”...

Sep 14, 2023 • The Chronicle of Higher Education

'Feminine Mystique' author Betty Friedan dies at age 85

Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best-seller in the 1960s and laid th...

Jul 02, 2026 • Tulsa World

The Abandonment of Betty Friedan

T oday, Betty Friedan is recognized for two enormous accomplishments: her 1963 best seller, The Femi...

Sep 10, 2023 • The Chronicle of Higher Education

Waiting for Betty Friedan

Emmy Award-winner Ann Marcus (co-creator of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman") gives a feminist holler wi...

May 20, 2002 • Variety