Fifty years ago Betty Friedan shocked the nation with a best-selling book claiming that American women had been making themselves miserable by trying to live up to a myth --  that a normal woman wanted nothing more than to be a model housekeeper and attentive wife. Friedan named this myth “the feminine mystique." In a period when women actually told pollsters that “being subordinate to men is part of being feminine," Friedan’s message that women and ...