“As with everything Betty, it’s complicated.” — Rebecca Jo Plant, a historian at the University of California, San Diego In Her Words is available as a newsletter.
Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. If she were alive today, the feminist Betty Friedan would turn 100 this year.
It has been 15 years since she died on her birthday, Feb. 4, 2006, at age 85, and on Thursday there’ll be a pandemic-approved digital celebration in her honor.
Betty Friedan’s “100th Birthday Webinar,” produced by the Veteran Feminists of America, will be streamed on multiple platforms and will feature a veritable who’s who of speakers, including Gloria Steinem; Senator Elizabeth Warren; Alicia Garza, a founder of Black Lives Matter; and Christian Nunes,.