Betty Friedan

• Conditioning

  Women too socially conditioned to recognise their own desperation.
• Radicalism


  Concerned that feminism was becoming too radical to retain its mainstream appeal.
• Strand

  Modern liberalism
• Human Nature


  Does not inherently make women less ambitious, but society has created this idea.
• The State

  The state should legislate to prevent discrimination. The state not inherently patriarchal.
• Society

  Society remains sexist in its perception of women.
• The economy

  Capitalism not inherently sexist, but the people within the system are. Women should be free to enter careers and fulfil their economic opportunity.