Feminism in the USA — what led to the movement

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The post-war cultural ideal that a woman's proper role was running the home as a full-time wife and mother.

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About one in three — despite the domesticity ideal being everywhere in the culture.

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The US Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth-control pill.

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Roughly six million, making it one of the fastest-adopted drugs in history.

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It struck down a state law banning contraception for married couples, on privacy grounds.

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It extended the right to contraception to unmarried people, closing the legal gap with married couples.

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Betty Friedan, published in 1963.

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'The problem that has no name.'

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NOW — the National Organization for Women, a major feminist campaign group.

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The ideal said women belonged at home; in reality, about a third of married women already held paying jobs, creating a gap that fed frustration.

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Use specific content from BOTH sources and explicitly link each one to the inquiry question — not just summarize them.

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She wrote as a white, college-educated, suburban woman in 1963, which helps explain the book's appeal but also its limits — it reflected mainly white, middle-class women's experiences.