The Third Wave Of Feminism In The Early 20th Century

Unfortunately, it has been proven through a multitude of research that the average female makes about 79% of the amount that their male counterpart would make. Even after achieving the victory of making jobs for women a norm, women still struggle with the male advantage. As Susan B. Anthony continued in Suffrage and the Working Woman, “When she has attained ability to compete with them and to do just as well in every respect she is placed at work, if at all, on half pay” (Anthony). Although some argue that the gender pay gap is nothing but a myth, the statistical facts show otherwise. While those in positions of power and privilege attempt to thrust this issue out of the picture, it remains a large problem that no woman should be unaware of. Unequal pay is a common issue for plenty of women for far too long, and must be

Ninety-five years ago the nineteenth amendment was passed giving women in America the right to vote (America’s Historical Documents), this was a pivotal step for women rights. Since then women’s rights have increasingly advanced throughout America: in politics and in the workforce. In fact “women today make up almost half of all worker in the United States” (The State of Women in America). Sadly though, women are paid less than males in the workforce. "Women in the United States are paid only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes" (The State of Women in America). One question that derives from this topic is: why are women still not getting paid as much as men? Women should get paid as equally as men do. A fair argument to make against the topic is the difference in the types of work a woman and a man does (Debate). For example in construction men are tasked with most of the heavy lifting as opposed to a women that do not have as much

The Women’s Rights Movement in the 1960s and the 1970s grew out of the turbulent social disruption that characterized those decades of American history. This movement also known as “second wave feminism”, progressed from the suffrage movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Feminists pursued equality for women by challenging unfair labor practices and discriminatory laws. Many women of all ages, social class, and educational background founded organizations that provided other women with educational material about sex and reproduction, and fought to legalize all forms of birth control. In addition, they provided women with hope to gain their freedom in order to motivate them to fight for their rights.

In the 20th Century, women fought for justice and equality through organization, intersectionality, and unity. First-wave feminism, which lasted from the 19th Century to the early 20th Century, focused on women's rights – specifically their right to vote. The Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage (CU) and The National Woman's Party (NWP) fought for The 19th Amendment with multiple strategies including civil disobedience, publicity stunts, lobbying, and nonviolent resistance – a form of pacifism. Both groups were founded in 1913, and their many fights for equality helped lead to The 19th Amendment being passed in 1919, and its ratification in 1920. One of the resistances women faced during First-Wave Feminism was different ideas on how to

Females being confined to remain in their homes without opinion of what they wish to do, drives individuals to rise against the restrictions women had. With women actively resisting social norms: feminisms opposed the to limitations women had to from opportunities that they were not ideally supposed to have. Women from these eras delineated the ideal feminist whom transformed how women's roles in society were perceived. Recent events; although shame women who stand up for themselves and are eager to have more equal rights to men. The movement of the 1800s was one took lives and many hardships to receive the right to vote. In present society, identifying oneself as a feminist, has the negative connotation and belief that they hate men and feel superior toward the opposite sex. The reality is that feminism should continue to find equality for all

In the 60s was when women cried for equality and freedom the most. Freedom to be seen in society as equal to men. All these events in history were the catalyst of the radical feminist movement. Currently, feminism has been changing women's lives as they now as a new world of education, empowerment, and feminist theory are beginning to surface. This “second wave of feminism” has simple goals: women want freedom, equal opportunities, and control over their lives.

The Third Wave was also seen as originating from the 1990’s post-feminist movement. The goals of the First movement were met, such as voting and property rights, as well as the Second Wave’s goals of equality in the workplace and reproductive rights. Thus, the goals of feminists were seemingly accomplished, and the movement was considered dead.(Page 64) This caused an increase in activity from people who still felt that there were injustices that needed to be surfaced, in regards to the interconnectivity of race, class, and sexuality with feminism. The feminist movement isn’t dead yet, but where its goals and aims will lead it into the future is unknown.

Second wave feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, in conjunction with other social movements, built a foundation for much of the activist and intellectual work that followed. However, there was an assumption of whiteness in the second wave feminist movement as well as a prominence of heteronormativity, which blinded most of the populace to activist work done by women of color and lesbians. For example, there was a whole strata of work in lesbian and gay scholarship which date from the early 1970s which came out of the gay liberation movement. Lesbians (often in association with Jewish women) led the way among white women in articulating a politic that accounted for white women’s position as both oppressed and oppressor.

The First Wave of Feminism initially targeted at getting equal rights of property and child however by the end of the nineteenth century, it started focusing on issues like

Feminism is divided into three different waves, each one highlighting an era of struggle. The feminist movement began in the 18th century as a social campaign for the salvation of women. The first wave of feminism fought against three key injustices against women: not being allowed to own property, unable to have full rights over their body and discrimination in the workplace. Second wave feminism took place after the suffrage movement in the 50s and 60s. These feminists took the idea that gender equality could only be reached if both men and women changed the way they thought about sexes in society and their cultural attitude.

In 1776, the then First Lady of the United States was the first to raise her about women’s rights, telling her husband to “remember the ladies” in his drafting of new laws, yet it took more than 100 years for men like John Adams to actually do so. With the help of half a dozen determined, and in this case white upper-middle-class, women the first-wave feminism, which spans from the 19th century to the early 20th century, finally led to their goal after 72 years of protesting. The Nineteenth Amendment, which secured the rights for women to vote finally passed in 1920. This grand victory brought other reforms along, including reforms in the educational system,

When referring to the history of feminism in the manner of the first, second, or third wave, one is undermining the experiences that were ongoing during, in middle of, and before those waves that history defines. What ideologies of oppression were being spoken of to raise awareness and whose experience was being excluded/diminished? The articulation of feminism in using the metaphor of waves to describe how the ideologies peaked and rescinded, is incorrect because it focuses only on the voices of those who were able to bring their problems to the surface and excludes those who had a different experience or may have brought awareness in a quieter manner. There are many feminisms and each interpretation is defined by the collective oppression, rather than looking at the situation in an individual perception, which is what creates disagreements and division between feminists. Many definitions of feminism, feminisms, exist simultaneously because it is evolving as fast (or, well, as slow) as the world is changing and if one group of people are to speak of others experience of oppression (or lack of) in place of them, the result can be the glossing over of experiences and therefore, undermine experiences of others.

The idea of women being equal to men has been debated for a very long time. Even when civilizations were just starting, most women were treated very differently from men. When women started fighting against this oppression they were called feminists. Feminism can be separated into three waves. The first wave of feminism was from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The second wave was from the 1960s to the 1980s. The third wave of feminism started in the 1990s, but its end is unclear. Some people believe it has ended and the fourth wave of feminism has started, but others believe it continues today. The different waves have been very different in some aspects, but very similar in others. The main differences between the first and third wave of feminism are what they fought for, how they protested, and society’s reaction to their cause.

Gender and sexual orientation is a topic that has been and still today is not talked about in such a way it should be because of how society has chosen to structure and control it. Social stratification is a system in which groups of people are divided up into layers according to their relative privileges (power, property, and prestige). It’s a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy according to their relative privileges (Vela-McConnell 2016). People, who deviate from the norm of the “accepted” gender and sexual orientation that society has placed upon us, are stratified below the norm of a dominating binary gender and sexual orientation. People who are queer face the struggle of mistreatment and an unaccepting society that has been socialized to see and act on gender and sexual orientation to being a dualistic system.

Our visual narrative on women of the 1980’s focused on fitness and women’s increased interest in exercise and the sexual female body. Using images from the popular women’s magazine Cosmopolitan in 1985, the visual narrative attempts to demonstrate the various aspects of the 1980’s fitness craze and emphasis on the strong, healthy, sexual female body, or the “better body,” as often noted by many Cosmopolitan articles. Seeking to provide context for the fitness craze and images shown throughout women’s magazines of the 1980’s, this narrative references the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s in the United States for an explanation. Summarizing second-wave feminism in its early years, author J. Zeitz describes the movement: