baking, eternally mopping, Donna Reed that lived in every house on the blockwith her hard working husband and her twelve children that existed in the mediamade women feel that there was something wrong with them if they didn't enjoytheir housewife lifestyle. And it was not easy for women to deal with thisproblem. As Betty Friedan writes in The Feminine Mystique, "For over fifteenyears women in America found it harder to talk about this problem than about sex.(Kerber/DeHart 515)." Many psychiatrists were baffled and the problem was oftenignored with no known solution because everyone found it to not make any sense.Women of low economic status also struggled a great deal because theyhad to deal with the problems associated with a single income household whichcould become very frustrating when she has every reason to get a job, but cannot. It is also harder to raise children with a low income and provide for thefamily as she was expected to.It is interesting to apply the notion of the feminine mystique to modernculture and see that it often still exists. Though there are many women who aregetting jobs, there are still a lot of families that fit the mold of thetraditional family with the breadwinner and the bread baker with bunch of kidsrunning around.The benefits which arose from this oppression were that women began tofight back. NOW activists began to use both traditional and non-traditionalmeans to push for social change. They have done and continue to do extensiveelectoral and lobbying work in addition to organizing mass marches, rallies,pickets, and counter-demonstrations. NOW re-instituted mass marches for women'srights in the face of conventional wisdom that marches were a technique thatdied out with the 1960s. A march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment drewmore than 100,000 people to Washington, DC in 1978. NOW's March for Women'sLives in 1992 became the largest protest ever in the capital.One of the ways that women'...
