Tag: Betty Friedan

  • Nation & World

    Gender pay gap? Culprit is ‘greedy work’

    In “Career and Family” Claudia Goldin tracks evolution through 20th-century gains to era of earning inequality that forces harsh life choices.

    14 minutes
    Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin
  • Nation & World

    ‘Feminine Mystique’ at 50

    A revealing exhibit at the Schlesinger Library charts the evolution of Betty Friedan’s seminal work “The Feminine Mystique.” What began as a college reunion survey morphed into a treatise that looked deeply into gender, power, and sexuality.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    When things changed for women

    During a Radcliffe address, New York Times columnist Gail Collins offered her perspective on why how and why the rights and expectations of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Food, gender, culture

    Harvard Summer School is big, young, diverse, and challenging — qualities summed up nicely by a course on food, gender, and American culture.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bon appétit! Julia at 100

    In honor of what would have been French chef Julia Child’s 100th birthday, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America hosted an entertaining and informative daylong symposium.

    8 minutes