From the NEWSWEEK Archives: 'Young Wives With Brains'
In a special report from March 1960, NEWSWEEK investigated the changing lives of educated women in America. In this weekly feature, we dig into the NEWSWEEK archives to see how times have changed—or in some cases, haven't.
It was the problem that had no name: the buried, unspoken, yet so utterly debilitating feeling facing American housewives in the 1950s and 1960s. Feminist icon Betty Friedan wouldn't coin the phrase for three more years, but in 1960, NEWSWEEK had its finger on the pulse.
