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Equality in all aspects of women’s experience
- Unlike the first wave of feminism, of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which focused primarily on securing women’s right to vote, the second wave lobbied for equality in all aspects of women’s experience, particularly in employment, politics, marriage and family, education, and sexuality.
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May 15, 2024 · Learn about the period of the women’s movement in the U.S. that emerged in the 1960s and lasted through the 1970s. Find out how second-wave feminists lobbied for equality in all aspects of women’s experience and achieved landmark victories such as the Equal Pay Act, Title IX, and Roe v. Wade.
Learn about the second wave of feminism, which emerged in the 1960s and focused on legal, economic, and social rights of women. Explore its history, main ideas, and impact on gender roles, reproductive rights, financial independence, workplace equality, and domestic violence.
Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.
Jun 18, 2020 · After the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote, the first wave of feminism slowed down significantly. Although many of these activists continued to fight for women’s rights, the next sustained feminist movement is believed to have started in the 1960s.
Like first-wave feminism, the second wave was largely defined and led by educated middle-class white women who built the movement primarily around their own concerns. This created an ambivalent, if not contentious, relationship with women of other classes and races.
Learn how women of all ages fought for equality and rights in the 1960s, influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and inspired by Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique. Explore the agenda of NOW, the passage of Title VII, the birth control pill, and the radical feminist protest at the Miss America Pageant.
Increasingly in the 1960s and 1970s, second-wave feminism diverged into two separate ideological movements: Equal rights feminism and radical feminism. Within equal-rights feminism, the objective sought equality with men in political and social spheres, where legislation and laws such as legalization of abortion and efforts to make women more ...
