Growing up, I had no idea just how influential the feminist movement was in the culture. Though I wasn’t familiar with radical feminists like Betty Friedan or Simone de Beauvoir, their influence was profoundly felt in the subtle and not so subtle ways we were encouraged as women to see staying home and raising kids as “less than”.  Friedan referred to the home as “a comfortable concentration camp” and she pushed the idea that the only “productive” work for women was that work performed outside of the home.  Simone De Beauvoir denied the real differences between men and women and is famous for her quote, “One is not born, but rather…