Answer: The belief that the only role women should have is as a wife and mother in the home.
<em>The Feminine Mystique</em> is a book by Betty Friedan, published in 1963. She refers to the idea that women should be completely fulfilled by being wives and mothers the "feminine mystique." Friedan argues that women throughout the 1950s and 1960s were dissatisfied, and that they felt that there was something else they wanted to do with their life. However, this problem was considered a personal one, and not one of social proportions.
