*explain in your own words what the author means by pink-thinkitis” “You might even say that the problem with no name" that Betty Friedan
wrote about in The Feminine Mystique (1963) was a virulent strain of pink-
thinkitis. After all, according to Friedan, the problem was in part engendered
by the experts insistence that women "could desire no greater destiny than to
glory in their own femininity"-a pink think credo.
The pink think of the 1940s to 1970s held that femininity was necessary for
catching and marrying a man, which was in turn a prerequisite for
childbearing--the ultimate feminine fulfillment. This resulted in little girls
playing games like Mystery Date[3] long before they were ever interested in boys.
It made home economics a high school course and college major, and suggested
a teen girl's focus should be on dating and getting a boyfriend.”

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt