The publication of the book heralded the arrival of the second-wave feminist movement. Her research on The Feminine Mystique began during the 1950s when she conducted a survey among her fellow Smith alumnae and found that many of them lived discontented lives as housewives. The couple had three children and settled in Rockland County, New York where Friedan became a homemaker and a freelance writer. While there, she worked in a series of odd jobs until meeting Carl Friedan, an aspiring theater producer and advertising executive. She spent a year at the University of California – Berkeley on a fellowship to pursue advanced work in psychology before moving to New York City in 1943. Friedan attended Smith College where she studied psychology and graduated summa cum laude in 1942. Betty Friedan was the oldest of three children born to Harry Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a jeweler, and his wife Miriam Goldstein, a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a journalist until Friedan was born.
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