Which excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique contains underlined keywords that reflect mainstream society’s view of a woman’s role in the 1950s and ’60s?
Answer
A
The problem lay buried , unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.
B
They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents .
C
Some women, in their forties and fifties, still remembered painfully giving up those dreams , but most of the younger women no longer even thought about them.
D
All they had to do was devote their lives from earliest girlhood to finding a husband and bearing children .