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and women’s failure to assert worth
Independence effect
Industrialization
Ingalli, Elaine
In-state tuition laws
Institute for Human Development
Institute for Motivational Research
It Changed My Life
(Friedan)
Jackson, Robert
Jacoby, Susan
Jaffe, Rona
Jaycees
Jews, prejudices facing
Job-related issues.
See
Employment
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Mrs. Charles
June Cleaver (TV character)
Jury service
Juvenile delinquency
Kansas Supreme Court
Kardiner, Abram
Keats, John
Kelley, Abby
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyon, Dorothy
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Mary
Kinney, Joanne
Kirk, Grayson
Klein, Viola
Kleiner, Heather
Komarovsky, Mirra
Korean War
Kushner, David
Labor movement
female organizers in the
Friedan’s ties to the
Ladies Auxiliary in the
See also
Unions; U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau
Ladies’ Home Journal
“The Lady Who Licked Crime in Portland” (article)
Landry, Bart
Lane, Rose Wilder
Latinas, undercounting, in the workforce
Legal double standards
Legal profession
women in the
work hours in the
Lerner, Gerda
Lesbians.
See also
Homosexuality
Lessing, Doris
Levine, Lena
LIFE
magazine
Life So Far
(Friedan)
Little House on the Prairie
(Wilder)
Look
“Look Before You Leap” (article)
Looks, discrimination based on
Lorber, Judith
Loyalty Review Board
Lundberg, Ferdinand
Mad Men
(television show)
Mademoiselle
Madwives
(Warren)
Magazine War Guide
(government publication)
Magazines
commending career women
and coverage of women’s rights
mass-circulation, survey of
middle-class white
readership of
and reception of Friedan’s work
targeted marketing by
women’s
See also
Mass media;
specific magazines
Male breadwinner-female homemaker model
Male executives, changing priorities of
Managerial and professional positions, women in
Marital advice books/articles
Marital benefit, single vs. married women’s view of
Marital duties, legal definition of
Marital rape
Marriage
changes in age of
harmony in
rates of
rights in, lack of
second
Marriage and Family Living
Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program
Marshall Field’s department store
Marshall, Mrs. Peter
Masculine crisis
“Masculine mystique,”
Masculinity
Maslow, Abraham
Mass media
and the amendment to Title VII
Friedan’s claims about the
between the 1920s and 1940s
in the 1950s
today
See also specific names of newspapers, magazines, movies, and television shows
Maternal deaths
Maternity benefits
Maternity homes for unwed mothers
Math test scores
Mauer, Trent
May, Elaine Tyler
McCall’s
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthyism
Mead, Margaret
Meaningful work
Media.
See
Mass media
Medical field, women in
Mein Kampf
(Hitler)
Mendelsohn, Harold
Mental hospitals
Merriam, Eve
Meyerowitz, Joanne
Middle-class career mystique
Middle-class women
African-American
Friedan’s focus on
percentage working
vs. working-class women
Migrant Action Program
Millard, Betty
Miller, JoAnn
Millett, Kate
Mills College
Minorities.
See specific group
Mitchell, Juliet
The Modern Book of Marriage
(Levine)
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex
(Lundberg and Farnham)
Modlin, Herbert
Moen, Phyllis
Momism
Mommy mystique
Mommy wars
Morgan, Robin
Morse, Linda
Motherhood patterns and education
Mothers and wives.
See
Homemakers; Working women/mothers
Movies.
See
Mass media;
specific movies
Murray, Pauli
Myrdal, Alva
“The Myth of the Necessary Housewife” (Merriam)
NAACP
Naming the problem
Nannies and housekeepers
Narcissism
The Nation
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Council of Negro Women
National Council of Women of the United States
National Federation of Business and Professional Women
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Manpower Council
National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Press Club
National Review
National Strike for Equality
National Woman’s Party
Nelson, Harriet
Nelson, Ozzie
Nemzoff, Ruth
Netherlands, work hours in the
Neurosis
New Deal
New Left
“A New Life Plan for Women” (Friedan; chapter title)
New Republic
New Yorker
New York Times
New York University
Newspapers
advice columns in
and coverage of women’s rights
gender-based job ads in
and publicity for Friedan’s work
See also
Mass media;
specific newspapers
Newsweek
Niche marketing
Nineteenth Amendment
See also
Suffrage movement; Voting rights
Nisbett, Sandie
Nixon, Richard
Norwood, Robin
Nuclear family, romanticization of the
O’Beirne, Kate
O’Connor, Sandra Day
O’Farrell, Brigit
Ohio State University
Olin-Ammentorp, Julie
Oral sex
Ortner, Sherry
Ozzie and Harriett (TV characters)
Packard, Vance
Palin, Sarah
Parental leaves
Parenting
advice on
lack of respect and support for
permissive
time spent on, changes in
Parents
magazine
Parker, Lynn
Parks, Rosa
Parsons, Anne
Parsons, Talcott
Part-time workers, satisfaction level of
“The Passionate Journey” (Friedan; chapter title)
Paul, Alice
Pay/salary.
See
Income
Perfect Madness
(Warner)
Perkins, Franklin
Peterson, Esther
Pickford, Mary
Plant, Rebecca Jo
Playboy Clubs
Playing dumb
Popular Mechanics
Post-suffrage period
Pregnancy
discrimination involving
stigma associated with
See also
Abortion; Birth control, Reproductive rights
Prejudice.
See
Discrimination and prejudice
President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Princess Margaret
Privileged women.
See
Middle-class women
Professional fields, women in
Promiscuity
Property rights and support
Protective legislation
Psychiatry.
See
Freudian psychiatrists/ideas
Psychological maladjustment
Publication of
The Feminine Mystique
becoming a best seller
changes since
date of
delay in
extreme reactions still generated by
feminists’ criticism of
as the first modern self-help book for women
Friedan’s claims about
historical record on
myths perpetuated about the impact of
publicity for
sources for
Pullman, Jane
Quindlen, Anna
Rabiner, Susan
Racial issues
See also
African-American women; Civil Rights Bill; Civil rights movement
Radcliffe College
Rand, Ayn
Randolph, A. Philip
Rape
Readers’ Digest
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television
(blacklisting publication)
Redbook
Reed, Donna
Religion
and civil rights
prejudice based on
role of, in women’s identity
Reproductive rights
See also
Abortion; Birth control
Retirement, forced
Reynolds, Debbie
Rice, Melinda
Riddle, Margaret
Riesman, David
Risman, Barbara
Robinson, Dollie Lowther
Robinson, Joyce
Rockefeller Foundation
Roehling, Patricia
Role models
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosen, Ruth
Rosie the Riverter
Rostow, Edna
Rubin, Lillian
Russell, Rosalind
Russia/Soviet Union
Salary/wages.
See
Income
Sandage, Shirley
Saturday Evening Post
Scanlon, Jennifer
“Scarlet Letter” symbol
Scheinfeld, Amram
Scheuer, James
Schizophrenia
Schlesinger Library
Schlessinger, Laura
Schmiege, Marjorie
Science
Searle, Elizabeth
Second marriages
The Second Sex
(de Beauvoir)
Self-help books and
The Feminine Mystique
Senior Scholastic polls
“Sex and Caste: A Kind of a Memo” (King and Hayden)
Sex and the City
(television show)
Sex and the Single Girl
(Brown)
Sex discrimination.
See
Discrimination and prejudice
“The Sex Seekers” (Friedan; chapter title)
Sexual assaults
Sexual freedom
Sexual fulfillment
Sexual harassment
Sexual maladjustment, claims of
Sexual Politics
(Millett)
“The Sexual Sell” (Friedan; chapter title)
Sexual sell campaign
“The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud” (Friedan; chapter title)
Sexuality and gender, cultural mores about
“Silent generation” label
Simonds, Wendy
Sinatra, Frank
Single career women
See also
Working women/mothers
Small Business Administration
Smith College
Smith, Howard
Smith, Margaret Chase
Smolak, Linda
Sodomy laws
Sommers, Christina Hoff
Southern Leadership Council
Southern Methodist University
Soviet Union/Russia
Spock, Benjamin
Stanford Law Review
Stanford Law School
Stanford University
Stanger-Ross, Jordan
Stay-at-home fathers
Stay-at-home mothers/wives.
See
Homemakers
Stern, Mark
Stevenson, Adlai
Stewardesses.
See
Airline industry and employment
Stivers, Cam
Stone, Pamela
Strecker, Edward
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students for a Democratic Society
Suburbia
indictments of
media preoccupation with
moving to
racial integration of
See also
Homemakers
Suffrage movement.
See also
Nineteenth Amendment; Post-suffrage period; Voting rights
Sullivan, Elinor Smith
Survey Research Center
Swarthmore College
Sweden
Talbot, Margaret
Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
Tax law
Teenage girls.
See
Girls/teens
Television industry.
See
Mass media
Television news, employment in
Television ownership
Television shows.
See
Mass media;
specific television shows
The Tender Trap
(movie)
Thalidomide
Their Mothers’ Sons
(Strecker)
Thompson, Dorothy

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