The concept of women as equal to men horrified traditionalists, especially fundamentalists, who insisted that God had made the family the model for society, with women subordinate to men and some men subordinate to others. Overturning that system undercut God’s law. Two years later, in 1963, they found evidence of their fears when in her book The Feminine Mystique young housewife Betty Friedan skewered the comfortable suburban home life to which most Americans aspired as a “concentration camp” that stifled women as individuals.38
