Friedan, Betty

  • Women’s Equality Day in Central Park, August 27, 1977

    Actuality from a march to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  and celebrating the 57th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The march was held August 27, 1977 in Central Park, New York City. This recording includes speeches by Betty Friedan, Goldie Chu of Asian American Women’s Caucus, Ruth Gilbert of the United Methodist Women,…

  • A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George.

    A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women’s movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to…

  • Global speak-out at the U.N. International Women’s Year Conference, 1975

    Finding even the less formal Tribune too constricting for real communication, non-governmental delegates to the 1975 U.N. International Women’s Year Conference organized “Global speak-outs.” This is the First Global Speak-Out, held Monday, June 23. Even at this first attempt to circumvent the political divisions at the conference, ideological, racial, and nationalistic differences emerged. The speak-out…

  • Betty Friedan vs. the Third World.

    Betty Friedan, co-founder of the National Organization of Women and author of The Feminine Mystique, addresses questions from Third World women of the press on such issues as the family’s future, how American women handle family as well as a career, and how Third World women’s problems contrast with those of women from more developed…

  • Prisons are more important than schools : the hypocracy of child-care funding / Marian Wright Edelman ; introduced by Betty Friedan.

    Talk by Marian Edelman about the misdirection of funding the the American system. She points to the huge incarceration rate in the United States (with accompanying costs) and that, while taxpayers will spend $80 a-piece for the Savings and Loan bailout, proposed child care legislation could cost only $7. In addition, she points to the…

  • It changed my life / Betty Friedan ; interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Barbara Cady interviews Betty Friedan, feminist and author, about her new book, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (New York: Random House, 1976). In the interview, she discusses her hopes and fears concerning the women’s movement in America, and her feeling that ideological clashes within the movement and the belief that the…

  • Women as internationalists : sharing the future.

    A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N. conference…

  • Women’s liberation : deja vu / produced by Ruth Kamen.

    Ruth Kamen recorded and produced this sound portrait of a three day conference on women in Detroit at Wayne State University in 1970. Here, assembled in montage form is the music of Dona, a feminist singer; the voices of United Nations worker Ruth Gage Colby, author Betty Friedan, sociologist Marlene Dixon; and some people who…