Question

Though she has a husband, children, and adequate income, a housewife feels lost, aimless, and sad. she doesn't have a name for what she feels. if you were to interpret the housewife's experience through betty friedan's framework, you'd say the housewife is experiencing the:

Answer 1

The problem with no name.

Betty Friedan is a feminist and known as "The Feminine Mystique". For the problem of the housewife, she is sure to have "the problem with no name". Friedan described the dissatisfaction they endured as “the problem with no name,” and wrote of its terrible toll on the mental health of American women. Thousands of women recognized themselves in the pages of her study and were inspired to join the growing movement for women's rights. She described the unhappiness of suburban “housewives,” who felt unrewarded by the tasks of their daily lives and guilty for not feeling more fulfilled. While other writers complained that higher education undermined women's abilities to undertake their traditional roles as wives and mothers, she argued instead that women were unfairly confined by the expectation that they should stay at home and focus all of their energies on family life.