This presentation is from the online class. "Acting Up - Using Theater & Technology for Social Change" taught by Tom Tresser for the DePaul University School for New Learning. Info: http://tomsclasses.wordpress.com

1. B etty Friedan: A Woman on a Mission for Equal Rights “Men, there’s a revolution brewing in the American kitchen.” -- Betty Friedan, 1943 . By Nicole Parker NOW March in Manhattan, 1970

3. http://www.thetigressreader.wordpress.com/tag/gail-collins/ http://www.womenshistory.about.com/ “ Betty Friedan speaks regarding a national women’s strike on Aug. 26, 1966.” Source: Washington Post http://www.thetigressreader.wordpress.com/tag/gail-collins/

4. Betty Friedan FAQs Who was she? A: An outspoken woman popular in the 1960s and 1970s who was involved not only in women’s rights, but anti-fascism and anti-war movements in college, the labor union movement, and ageism. Where was she educated? A: She went to Smith College, as well as Highlander Folk School in the Appalachians to learn about activism.

7. Are We Done With the Fight for Women’s Rights? NO! Sadly, a lot of what Friedan said then still holds true today. Just last year, Slate magazine ran a story in which Meghan Cox Gurdon of the Washington Examiner said, “wherever egalitarian feminism has sprinkled its fairy dust, women report that they are considerably less happy and satisfied with life than were their benighted, patriarchy-oppressed apron-wearing sisters of yore.” 3