Three Waves of Feminism Feminism is women’s rights to have an equal standings to that of men. Women have had little to no rights when compared to men in the past due to there gender. It was not till the last hundred years women have sought to stand on equal ground to men when it comes to rights and laws. The right to vote, equal pay, political setting in government offices, and some basic human rights. This is concerning the women in the United States of America and not necessarily the rights of women around the world. Because the culture climate is changing in the US it does not mean it’s happening across the globe, for some customs around the world have not changed and some don’t want change to happen for many different reasons. The first
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The first wave had been mostly rights and the push for equality in law. The second wave was more equality in both culture and society and not just laws and rights. Virginia Wolf was the head of the second wave feminism for being a women who was in an equality based family. With her father and mother helping to push Wolf towards education while also mixed with a family that was wealthy she was able to focus and learn, leading her to write a book named “A Room of One’s Own”. In this book she mentioned the societal difference between male and female in the culture that she lived in. Men were given better educations then women because women weren’t expected to go to school to get an education but rather how to act as a proper women through educate classes. Men were seen as smarter for this because of the educational differences, also men were “given” better jobs also because of this education …show more content…
Where women now have the chance to have jobs equal to that of men, along with freedom to move around freely with no restrictions also being able to speak as an equally in the household. However race now shadows topics instead of gender, having color separate everyone in social, political, and economic standing. This is not a new standing but as been around since the 1900’s when Sojourner Truth wrote a book “AIN 'T I A WOMAN?” stating that all these changes were happening to empower women but not all women just the white ones. The more modern our society becomes the more color or race doesn’t matter more and more, we are growing up seeing people as equals in all matters concerning age, color, size, gender, and even religion. However women were still not completely respected by men because stereotypes still reared there ugly head. Women were allowed to go to college but not for education but to find a husband in some cases, women were still expected to carry out homely duties even if it were not to the amount few years
The first wave had been mostly rights and the push for equality in law. The second wave was more equality in both culture and society and not just laws and rights. Virginia Wolf was the head of the second wave feminism for being a women who was in an equality based family. With her father and mother helping to push Wolf towards education while also mixed with a family that was wealthy she was able to focus and learn, leading her to write a book named “A Room of One’s Own”. In this book she mentioned the societal difference between male and female in the culture that she lived in. Men were given better educations then women because women weren’t expected to go to school to get an education but rather how to act as a proper women through educate classes. Men were seen as smarter for this because of the educational differences, also men were “given” better jobs also because of this education …show more content…
Where women now have the chance to have jobs equal to that of men, along with freedom to move around freely with no restrictions also being able to speak as an equally in the household. However race now shadows topics instead of gender, having color separate everyone in social, political, and economic standing. This is not a new standing but as been around since the 1900’s when Sojourner Truth wrote a book “AIN 'T I A WOMAN?” stating that all these changes were happening to empower women but not all women just the white ones. The more modern our society becomes the more color or race doesn’t matter more and more, we are growing up seeing people as equals in all matters concerning age, color, size, gender, and even religion. However women were still not completely respected by men because stereotypes still reared there ugly head. Women were allowed to go to college but not for education but to find a husband in some cases, women were still expected to carry out homely duties even if it were not to the amount few years