i think when "the feminine mystique" en came out i think betty friedan herself put into words what was in so many people's hearts hearts, they could not have said and it was like the electric shock that i didn't think anything perhaps since martin luther king but that actually you felt together we would change the world we went on a feminist march to washington and went on a peace march together and suddenly we had a voice we were different somebody had to pay attention to us. and it was overwhelming. which is why baja -- may be about barbie and a hair dresser. [laughter] but i remember going to the museum with all the plates dedicated to the women who have made contributions l i am not judging this as a work of art, this is not my field but i can tell you i was there with katy and her younger sister and i felt as if the world was turning. we were going to do this now i may have thought it was simpler than it turned out to be and may not have anticipated to three children with a corporate lawyer job but the celebration of it, i just want to say one more thing that i will stop. i took a

but once again if you go back to some of the older feminism and and particularly betty friedan who is an explicit on this point, the women were supposed to be liberated from doing the housework. the core of the argument is that women have to stop polishing their floors so they can go out and actually do real things that have an impact in the world. we were supposed to move away from washing clothes and cooking meals so we could have a fulfilling personal life. rather than women into some extent man moving away from doing housework we are doing more housework. and we are doing the housework and the much higher and almost surreal level of expectation. what the women today expect their homes will look like actually takes many more hours than their mothers or grandmothers were expected to do once again, pick up any of the shelter magazines on the stand and look at what you're supposed to be whipping up for dinner every night. look at what you're bathrooms are supposed to look like and what your bedrooms are supposed to look like. just because it is the autumn time of year i pulled a coupl

that was one thing about the work they send the other thing is that betty friedan was not a marxist and that is not a proven fact. and it's very upsetting to hear it be given as that but i like most of what you said otherwise. she had a profound sense of social justice center profound sense of social justice was informed by many things including her upbringing and where she grew up and many many things. in the 40s she grew up studying intellectual things in college and she certainly played with leftist ideas and everything. did anybody see the way we were quite anybody who was intelligent at that time -- she would be what we would say a limousine communist. >> the word marxist has certain residences to older people and what they mean by that was she had a strongly developed class consciousness and she thought more seriously about class in a more rigorous way then in the book. when you say limousine communist maybe that's a better way to talk about it. do we have time for one more question? one more question. >> make it a good one. >> this is more of a comment based upon the last thing w

that was one thing about the work they send the other thing is that betty friedan was not a marxist and that is not a proven fact. and it's very upsetting to hear it be given as that but i like most of what you said otherwise. she had a profound sense of social justice center profound sense of social justice was informed by many things including her upbringing and where she grew up and many many things. in the 40s she grew up studying intellectual things in college and she certainly played with leftist ideas and everything. did anybody see the way we were quite anybody who was intelligent at that time -- she would be what we would say a limousine communist. >> the word marxist has certain residences to older people and what they mean by that was she had a strongly developed class consciousness and she thought more seriously about class in a more rigorous way then in the book. when you say limousine communist maybe that's a better way to talk about it. do we have time for one more question? one more question. >> make it a good one. >> this is more of a comment based upon the last thing w