She was a professor of economics and taught at the Barnard and Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers.

Or shall we chart what we consider the standards of 'an abundant life' and work to establish that order of society that will make them possible to all of us alike?"

[7] During World War I, Friedmann was active in the national leadership of the YWCA,[8][9] and wrote several booklets in that work.

[19][20] Charlotte Wilder dedicated her poetry collection Phases of the Moon (1939) to Friedmann and novelist Evelyn Scott.

[23] She joined the staff of the Washington International Center when it opened in 1950 and retired from that work on July 1, 1962.