Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was well written; it is properly crafted for the audience to understand why women are forced to be flawless because women are perceived as puppets. The Feminine Mystique expressed the concerns of millions of American women with their constrained gender roles and helped fuel broad public agitation for gender equality.

Friedan considers “the feminine mystique” to be a step backwards for women. She considers first-wave feminists to have hung up their coats after gaining the right to vote. Men still consider women as possessions and as things that can’t/shouldn’t fend for themselves. When, in actuality, women are in charge, they bring life into the world, and they are cognitively and emotionally stronger than males. Betty Friedan defined these women’s dissatisfaction as “the issue with no name.” Women felt this way because they were obliged to be intellectually, financially, and physically submissive to males. Women have been grappling with their roles as housewives and mothers, which at first appeared to be a dream for many women but has turned out to be a nightmare.