On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the impact of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book on generations of women. It is credited with igniting the second wave of the feminist movement of the 1960s. What has changed since then? Join us at 10am PT or leave a comment here. What are women’s issues today? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Guests:
Stephanie Coontz, faculty member at Evergreen State College and author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Leslie Bell, sociologist and psychotherapist who specializes in women's development and sexuality, author of Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Web Resources:
Guardian: Feminists can be sexy and funny – but it's anger that changes the world
NY Times: Why Gender Equality Stalled
NY Times: The Myth of Male Decline