Betty Friedan

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

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

The acclaimed reformer stoked the white, middle-class feminist movement and brought critical understanding to a “problem that had no name”

How women's liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.

Can (and should) conservatives reclaim feminism from the radicals?

Few who encounter Positive Psychology via self-help books and therapy know that its gender politics valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969

Like most cultural shifts in language, the rise of white, upper-middle class women who call themselves ‘mama’ seemed to happen slowly, and then all at once.

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

A new book illuminates how freedom became associated with choice and questions whether that has been a good thing—for women in particular.

Conservatives think we need traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline; But it’s the economic equality created by strong unions that Americans miss.

“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth go too far?

Judith Jones edited culinary greats such as Julia Child and Edna Lewis—and identified the pleasure at the core of traditional “women’s work.”

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.