Makers: Women Who Make America — Season 1, Episode 1: The Awakening
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 9 episodes • ★ 4.5/10
Episode synopsis
The story of the birth of the modern Women’s Movement. When Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique came out in 1963, millions of American women felt the constraints of 1950s post-war culture, which confined them to the home or to low-paying, dead end jobs. At the same time, another group of women were emerging from the anti-war and civil rights movement determined to achieve their own revolution.
About Makers: Women Who Make America
The story of the modern American women’s movement and its impact on work fields once largely closed to women.