Friedan

American  

[fri-dan] / frɪˈdæn /

noun

1. Betty (Naomi Goldstein) 1921–2006, U.S. women's-rights leader and writer.

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Friedan British  

/ ˈfriːdən /

noun

1. Betty . 1921–2006, US feminist, founder and first president (1966–70) of the National Organization for Women. Her books include The Feminine Mystique (1963), The Second Stage (1982), and The Fountain of Life (1993)

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Example Sentences

The Journal’s list of influential books about the workplace includes titles by Benjamin Franklin, Dale Carnegie, Betty Friedan and John Steinbeck.

From The Wall Street Journal

Friedan called this “the problem that has no name.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But when this year, after a lifetime of reading around it, I actually tucked in to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," I was shocked at how bracingly relevant this sacred text of second-wave feminism felt.

From Salon

The 1963 publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” helped pierce that myth and nudge the country into the second wave of American feminism.

From Los Angeles Times

Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was already a best seller in the mid-1960s when Ms. Scanzoni began writing for Eternity, an evangelical Christian magazine that often challenged conservative attitudes on social issues.

From New York Times