Third Day Feminism

Throughout history, there has been an oppression against women with men leading the charge. Men expected to be the breadwinners of the family while women were expected to stay at home for cooking and cleaning. However, in the 19th century, this seemed to have changed. Women started to gather in unison, in order to stop this ideal of “weak women” and to have equality for all genders. These women, also known as the suffragettes, focused on women inequalities, primarily voting, and with their primary goal in mind, their odyssey began with women prevailing and gaining the right to vote. With this, we have the first wave of feminism. Later, in the era between the early 1960s through the early 1980s, the second wave of feminism boomed, frantically …show more content…
With this, I now have a problem with. Modern day feminism has been turned into something filled with, ironically, un-feministic views. With groups like White Feminist, Black Feminist, Radical Feminist, and others, the term “feminism” goes against what they do. Feminism, as google, dictionary.com, oxforddictionaries.com, and multiple other sources state, that feminism is the the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of the equality of the sexes. Not the advocacy to be superior or the advocacy of a certain group of females. It’s equality for all. The third wave of feminist are, how I would put it, cancer. Groups going against what feminism mean is one thing, but starting things such as the gender wage gap specifically is what I respectfully disagree with. Now, the wage gap, and while I do think women do have a harder time getting a job than men, not by qualifications, but by misogyny, I would believe it’s not true. When you take into consideration that men work, on average, 8.2 hours while women work 7.8 and men making up 55% of the workforce while women make up 45%, the number for men will most definitely be