Question

7. How did Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem contribute to the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 1

They campaigned for gender equality through literature and political activism

Answer 2

-Betty Friedan was a theorist and American feminist leader of the 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social psychology, in 1963 she wrote "The Mystique of Femininity", a key book in the history of feminist thought and considered one of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century.

Friedan was co-founder and president in 1966 of NOW, (National Organization of Women) a pioneer in the women's movement and which in the 21st century remains one of the most important feminist organizations in the USA.

In the decade of 1970, she raised diverse fights for the approval of the laws on the abortion, women's work and on the rights of the women in general. In 1981 she published another of his key books for feminism: "The Second Phase".

Betty Friedan is considered a central figure in American feminism.

-Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and writer, considered an icon of feminism in her country, as well as a leader of the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In 1969 Steinem published the article "After Black Power, Women's Liberation" that made her a leader of the feminist movement. Along with Betty Friedan is one of the referents of the so-called "second wave of feminism."  In 1971, she was the author of one of the leading speeches of the twentieth-century American feminist movement during the founding of the National Women's Political Assembly: Appeal to the Women of America.