In the opening pages of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote about a problem that "laid buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women." What was this problem?

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Betty Friedan wrote about the problem of women experiencing dissatisfaction with traditional gender roles. She referred to it as "the problem that has no name" and described how women felt unfulfilled by solely being wives and mothers, even if they had achieved financial security and success. This issue was largely unspoken and hidden from public discourse before the publication of The Feminine Mystique.

In the Opening Pages of the Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan