In some ways, things have gotten worse in that regard. This image, largely created by the media (to sell more stuff) did not take into account that different women are, well, different. The society of her time presented an image of the happy house wife joyfully scrubbing her floor and using her new and shiny vacuum cleaner. I love what I do, but if I were expected to have to be the only thing in my life, I would laugh at the expectation - or come to hate my job.įriedan is opposed to the notion that all women are the same and will be fulfilled by the same things. Such an expectation would be as silly as expecting me to find complete fulfillment in being nothing more than a software engineer. What I mean is that society expected the role of wife and mother to fulfill a woman completely and for her whole life. By "nothing more than housewives and mothers", I do not mean to imply that being a housewife and mother is not a worthwhile thing to do. Women in America were expected to be nothing more than housewives and mothers. Friedan wrote this book to explore a problem she saw in American society in the 40s and 50s. It would take too long to go through everything, but I will try to hit some highlights.
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