Betty Friedan Quotes About Discrimination

• In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

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• The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

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  Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

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  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn't even think about discrimination.

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• I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

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