The Feminine Mystique and dillettantism

In my last post on The Feminine Mystique, I asked why Betty Friedan seemed so gung-ho on shepherding women in the same working world that men of her era often found to be such a disheartening place. Well, towards the end of the book, Friedan addresses my exact point:

[A woman] can find identity only in work that is of real value to society—work for which…