This second wave of feminism broaden the debate of issues: sexuality, workplace, reproductive rights, and legal inequalities. Over this time, there was activists fighting for women’s rights but the next greatly significant feminist movement is believed to have been started in the 1960s. After the war, most women returned home, and let go of their jobs to the men. Women have always worked outside of home but never in the great numbers as during WW2 when the men were overseas. During this time, there was the Great Depression and then World War Two took place. After this, feminism seemed to slow down greatly.

This exploration of The Feminine Mystique and Lean In provides insight into how audiences used the platform to share ideas about feminism in the 21st Century.The Second Wave of Feminism is after the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920, which allowed women to vote.

As visual book-marking sites continue to grow in importance, communications professionals and scholars need a solid understanding of the various definitions and techniques affiliated with the platform. However, it too lacks a suitable amount of communications research articles. Lean In currently enjoys increasing popularity and has further stimulated women to play an active role in the advancement of their careers. While The Feminine Mystique is unquestionably a noteworthy text that helped stimulate the third wave of the feminist movement, very few communications research articles have addressed the book. Specifically, it investigates how users used Pinterest to both praise and pan both texts. This textual analysis examines representations of The Feminine Mystique and Lean In in user-generated content. The time is ripe to study Lean In's new influence on feminism and Feminine Mystique's lasting impact on society. Its reviews are mixed with critics praising it for its insightful advice on how to balance both career and family and panning it for a seemingly elitist perspective.

Fifty years later, as feminism enters into the fourth wave, the popular text Lean In has garnered media attention. The text helped kick off 1960s feminism in the United States. Betty Friedan, in her 1963 bestseller, The Feminine Mystique, examined the role of various institutions in keeping women in a subservient position.

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