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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was wonderfully written, it is perfectly written for the audience to understand the perspective on why women are pressured to be perfect because women are seen as pawns. A way to fulfill an agenda, gender roles are sectioned off in order to control and received power in manipulation. By manipulating genders against each other, the higher ups have it easier to achieve their secret agendas. Men till this day treat women as objects and as things that cannot/ should not fend for themselves. When in reality women are the one in control, they bring in life, they are mentally and emotionally stronger than men are. Physical strength is used to popularize men because that is what they have one up against women. They are stronger, in seeing they are stronger they are condition to believe they are better and should be in control. In America everything is use to a political advantage, work, education, place’s to live, and that is how they capitalizes. We all are a pawn in their plans and games they pull.

The Politics of Housework by Pat Mainardi

women are expected to clean, maintained men and the children they birth out. While in the 50’s and 60’s women weren’t expected anymore to put men above them but as time goes on. The more women get rights, the more men convert back into the old way of life. Conditioning women and themselves, they see women as caretakers of them and others. Since women are naturally careful and taught to take care of others before him.

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