Betty Friedan and her book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ majorly
contribute to fueling the second wave of the feminist movement.
The popularity of this book can be gauged from the fact that
three million copies of the book were sold in the first three
years. It is one of the major books of the 20th century for both
its supporters and conservatives. The US Department of Labor
ranked this book as one of the ten best books that established the
importance and dignity of labor in America. On the other hand,
in 2007, the conservative magazine “Human Events” ranked the
book seventh among the ten deadliest books of the 19th and 20th
centuries.