Read the excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. In the late fifties, a sociological phenomenon was suddenly remarke
d: a third of American women now worked, but most were no longer young and very few were pursuing careers. They were married women who held part-time jobs, selling or secretarial, to put their husbands through school, their sons through college, or to help pay the mortgage. The key terms in the excerpt most contribute to which of the following ideas? Women were always looking for ways to earn money. Women were bored at home so they decided to work. Women were often expected to sacrifice for males. Women were not capable of pursuing professions
The excerpt focuses on the idea of women only working late in their lives if their husbands needed them to because of money issues, so the answer is the fourth option; women were not capable of pursuing professions.
Much of the book discusses things like this. The feminine Mystique came out in 1963 and it is about how women in America were unhappy in the role that they were mostly stuck in: The housewife that can only cook and take care of children if she wants to be a real woman,
