Finally, the strong and weak points made in both Firestone and Eisenstein's articles will be examined, as well as a comparison of some of the central topics discussed in their articles, most notably the effect of biology on female oppression. .
Dorothy Smith in her piece critiquing the sociological paradigm, articulately brings into perspective the discrepancy between women's daily experiences and the public institutions through which they learn about society, life in general, and themselves. If Dorothy Smith's work may contribute to Betty Friedan's, "the problem with no name", which Friedan merely hints at by tracing the contours of patriarchal oppression, is clarified and colored in, by Smith's structural depiction of the means through which female oppression is maintained. Betty Friedan's The Problem With No Name, is a piece detailing an extensive glossary of women's subjective feelings, as they are experiencing the unidentified oppressing problem. The Problem With No Name, is little more than an excuse to play up its creative title. The title of Friedan's piece, is the furthest she pushed herself into theoretical thinking. Moreover, upon finishing her piece, the only thing to be learned was how well the content of her article correlated with its title. Friedan's article is completely devoid of any theoretical, metaphorical, abstract filler, which makes feminist theory interesting and applicable to other branches of sociology. Friedan also fails to distinguish herself and her empirical observations, from the everyday observations that non-sociological experts are capable of making. Sociological feminist writings exist largely to account for general observations and provide theories about their existence, not merely to state that these observations exist.