Read the excerpt from betty friedan’s the feminine mystique. but the actual unhappiness of the american housewife was suddenly being reported—from the new york times and newsweek to good housekeeping and cbs television (“the trapped housewife”), although almost everybody who talked about it found some superficial reason to dismiss it. which best describes the connotation of the word “superficial” in the excerpt?

It has a negative implication, since it proposes that the reasons used to expel the issue were not important. "The Trapped Housewife" is an expression talked about in Betty Friedan's book, "The Feminine Mystique". She discusses the issue numerous ladies looked in the 1960's tied in with being miserable with their lives at home and subsequent to perusing half of the book, I'm starting to see parallels of these issues that still holds on in show day.

It would be if there was a picture !