Fifthteenth in a series of articles commemorating Women's History Month by spotlighting a significant speech or testimony delivered by a woman in the U.S. on this date. Her speech was drafted on a ...

What prods our feminist foremothers into the light of reappraisal? The condition of women in the world is a changing state of affairs, except of course, depressingly, in all the ways it isn’t.

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Friedan’s Jewish identity at first took a backseat to her battle for women’s rights but eventually found a stage at the center of her public life, a new biography shows. (JTA) — When Betty Friedan ...

When Betty Friedan published “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, she set fire to a simmering discontent among millions of American women, blowing up the myth that feminine fulfillment began and ended ...

Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning. MyC-SPAN users can download four Congressional hearings and proceedings under ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When ...