In Beauvoir’s essay we read that the difference between being female, feminine, and a woman is that the term female only refers to the sex, biologically wise, feminine is a term used only as a matter of form, as on legal papers, and women are the human beings that are born with a uterus and ovaries. This differences matter to the author because women are classified differently depending on the point of view in which they are seen.

Friedman defines “this problem that has no name” as women wanting more. Women were taught no to stand out, to resign because that is how “truly feminine women” were supposed to be. But women wanted to do more than just clean, cook, raise their children, and sleep with their husband at night. Women wanted to go out and do more than just house chores.

In About Men we see different gender stereotypes portrayed by the author. Ehrlich portrays men as hard workers, hunters, courageous, heroes, and independent, but yet, softhearted. Women were portrayed as stay-at-home wives, that are suppose to clean and cook for the men.

In Men’s Lib by Romano and Dokoupil they address how women are starting to take over. They are taking over men’s job and have a greater percentage of women attending school. While men are becoming more involve with the family (as fathers). They are also adopting job positions that were previously seen as feminine jobs. Though this doesn’t mean that masculinity is over, instead, as the article says, we just need to reimagine it.

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