Social Change Between The 1960s And 1970's

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As society changes, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists change to accommodate new interests, problems, ways of thinking and political realities. Since the 1960s and 1970s, one of these experiences has been the feminist movement, one of the most important political and ideological movements of the late twentieth century. In the last three decades, feminism has changed the lives of millions of women and men in a multitude of ways. More than ever before, we see women or wives in boardrooms and men or husbands in kitchens. These kinds of changes are often called social changes. They represent changes in the way both sexes relate to one another and to society at large. Accompanying these social changes are changes in the ways people

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