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d antiquated. To those who received no education, the government or organization would hire volunteers to be part-time teachers to reeducate them. 3. Influence from Literary Works One day, a person told a poor guy, “Hey, don’t you know you could live better, but there are some person rubbing your rights and your treasure.” What would the poor guy do? He would become angry and then struggle for what would be robbed by others. This situation also happened in American women’s world. The literary works acted as the character “a person”. Those works tried to tell women, “You are not as humble as men told you. Actually, both of you are equal; either in intelligence or body.” Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986), published The Second Sex in 1949.It is the first book to explore systematically the importance of gender to social life, and it get a great reflection echo worldwide. The Second Sex discusses what women are; why women are the wicks and why now women are still the second sex to men. She says, “Man explains what woman is on the opposite to him but not on the basis of women’s essence.” “Women are never treated as independent people…compared with her essence, she is not human being but a subsidiary of man.” She also points out that ,“women are not born to be but taught to be.” In this book, she tells females that the reasons why women are in lower position and controlled by men: Women have been enslaved and fettered for quite a long time. She asks women to deny it initiatively that women are inferior. Betty Friedan (1921-?), the Mother of American Women’s Movement, the author of The Feminine Mystique. The main contents of The Feminine Mystique are critical evaluation to Freud’s theory which is accepted as another Bible. This theory focuses on one thing: females are born to be inferior to males, and their body structures cause their inferiority of sense and moral, therefore, they are self-abased, passive, and compliant. They admire men of their sex organs. So Females are only fit for the positions of mothers and wives, which support the inequality between the two genders. With this effect, young females drop their business and studies, and choose to be housewives. Friedan analyzes that all Freud believed in the view from biology is a result trained by one certain culture. She also quotes some achievements of Margaret Mead(1901-1978), the best known anthropologist of all time, that the definitions of femininity and masculinity are rooted in culture rather than biology, to support her view: Women’s desire to man are just the result of a certain culture, in some tribes, women shoulder more responsibilities than men, and men rely on women in sentiment. Her book is the sign of American women’s new awareness. It helps American women to think again and find out the reason of differences between the two genders. They woke up and fought for equality. B. Interior Causes 1. Self-awareness It was the Human Right Movement that caused American women’s awareness. In the bourgeois revolution, bourgeois idea was widely spread. Many people were attracted by it and joined the revolution. The idea was personal rights. They fought for equality between nobles and the common people, white and black. They asked for no difference. They fought for the independence of their country and believed in the Declaration of Independence. During those movements, American women noticed that even though they contributed to equality and the revolution went to a success