Question

Which woman is experiencing what Betty Friedan termed "the feminine mystique"?

a. A woman never tells her age and never shares her sexual past with her current partner.
b. A young woman displays her sexuality beautifully and in public in a way that mystifies onlookers.
c. A housewife feels lost and bored in the drudgery of housework and child care.
d. A mother somehow manages to "do it all.

Answer 1

C.

Step-by-step explanation:

Betty Friedan in 1963 published a book named "The Feminine Mystique".

In her book she used the phrase "feminine mystique" to define the assumptions that society has regarding the satisfaction for women which, according to the society, can be found only doing household works, rearing children, marriage or se-xual passivity.

In the given options, the feminine mystique is experienced by the housewife in the option c, who is bored rearing child and doing the household works.

So, the correct option is C.