Mad Men, Working “Girls” and Desperate Housewives: American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s – Stephanie Coontz

• History

In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her best-selling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hear what life was really like for women in that era, how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction reflected not a personal weakness but a political injustice, and what has and has not changed since.