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The other Problem that Has No Name

by Eric Karolak
May/June 2015
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“We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: ‘I want something more than my husband and my children and my home,’” Betty Friedan wrote in her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. She identified ‘the problem that has no name,’ the widespread unhappiness of women of her time with the prevailing ideal of the ‘happy housewife.’1

Before Friedan and The Feminine Mystique, people �" including many women themselves �" knew something was amiss, but were at a loss to explain it. Speaking out on a real issue that lacked a simple explanation or easy solution made Friedan and her book a catalyst for the ‘second-wave’ feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by larger numbers of women, especially white, middle-class women, entering the wage workforce, increasing the demand for child care services in communities throughout the country.

My mind wandered to Betty Friedan and the problem without a name as I sat in the cavernous auditorium at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC, in April, listening to a panel present findings of a new report on the early childhood workforce by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council.

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