First Wave Feminism In The 19th Century

In the 19th century, a new wave called Feminism was born. At the time no one knew how successful or unsuccessful it would become. Feminism held a massive effect on the females’ lives in society and regular day to day. It all began due to the inequality between men and women. Women were always assumed to stay home and clean and cook and raise children. It was unlikely for a woman to do anything but that. Feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. The feminist movement was sparked so that we could make this possible. When men were born they were immediately granted a number of rights that women were not, such as, married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn, and …show more content…
And on November second of that very same year more than eight million women voted in the election. And by 1984 all women were given the right to vote. This long battle was the tipping point for feminism. It was a seed planted that made many people realize that women can contribute to our society just as much as men. Many people like to call this “First Wave Feminism”. This means between the nineteenth and twentieth century, women’s fight for legal rights such as the right to vote and to own land. There are three waves of feminism as we are living in the third one currently. The second wave of feminism began midway in the twentieth century, just about the time after World War III. Now this wave did not necessarily focus on legal issues but more on workplace, reproductive and sexuality issues. There was a huge stigma about birth control and women’s rights to choose if they wanted children. Lots of women were severely injured or died due to back alley abortions and inability to take care of a baby in the womb. It wasn’t until 1960 did the first oral contraceptive was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as