Events

The second wave of feminism was brought up because women started thinking they were here to be more than just mothers and wives.

”Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, which criticized the postwar belief that a woman’s role was to marry and bear children. Though her feminist thinking wasn’t revolutionary—indeed, there were many similar feminist thinkers before Friedan, including Simone de Beauvoir—The Feminine Mystique had a far greater reach, bringing feminism to the attention of everyday women, mothers, and housewives. The feminist movement took off, focusing on public and private injustices, such as rape, reproductive rights, domestic violence, and workplace harassment” (Gale).

“Figuring prominently are the documents from the Women’s Educational Center; the Women School; the Abortion Action Coalition; and the Boston chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women, which combated offensive representations of women in media”(Gale).

Around this time most believed women were just to marry and bear children. Friedan believed that this should not be how women should be treated. She showed these beliefs in her book The Feminine Mystique. Beauvoir believed that women should have more responsibilities than to marry and bear children, but that it’s our responsibility to bring attention to private injustices.

Fifty thousand answered the call put out from a coalition of 54 groups. August 26, 1970, MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY.

There are women who are coming together to protest for equal rights. In the image they are holding a sign that says “Women of the world united.” This shows that women were sick of getting treated less and wanted to show that they have a right to be treated equally. Women wanted these to be treated equally so that they may have more rights.