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Credit: Toban b./ foter.comA book both hailed and reviled for launching the modern revolution in women’s roles—Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique—recently turned 50, almost exactly seven years after its author’s passing. Today, Friedan’s feminism still has important lessons and messages to offer, including ones that the women’s movement rejects at its own peril. Whatever its flaws, her vision is one that focuses on female achievement and equal partnership between women and men, not female victimhood, male evil, and gender warfare.

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