New feminism is a philosophy which highlights a belief in an integral complementarity of men and women, as opposed to one gender over the other. Feminism is referred to in waves. The first wave beginning with suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their goal was to achieve voting rights for women by adding an amendment to the constitution. The first wave began around 1848 close to the time of the Seneca Falls Convention and lasted until the Nineteenth Constitutional Amendment which legalized voting rights for women, the main goal, in 1920. Each wave of feminism is tied to activities or studies done throughout the time period. There have been three waves of feminism, and new feminism is also considered the fourth wave
