Child labour

 WHAT FEMINISM MEANS TODAY By SHRIRAM BANSAL MODERN FEMINISM- "Motherhood is bliss." "Your first priority is to care for your husband and children." "Homemaking can be exciting and fulfilling." Throughout the 1950s, educated middle-class women heard advice like this from the time they were born until they reached adulthood. The new suburban lifestyle prompted many women to leave college early and pursue the "cult of the housewife." Magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping and television shows such as "Father Knows Best" and "The Donna Reed Show" reinforced this idyllic image. But not every woman wanted to wear pearls and bring her husband his pipe and slippers when he came home from work. Some women wanted careers of their own. In 1963, BETTY FRIEDAN published a book called THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE that identified "the problem that has no name." Amid all the demands to prepare breakfast, to drive thei...