Third-wave Feminism
The first wave of feminism fought for and gained the right for women to vote. The second wave struggled to obtain the right for women to have access and equal opportunity to the workforce, as well as ending of legal sex discrimination. Third-wave feminism's central issues are that of race, social class, and sexuality. Some criticise third-wave feminism as lacking a single cause like getting the vote was for first-wave feminists, although its emphasis on diversity can be seen as the single main issue for third-wave feminism.
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“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.”
—Rosalind Coward (b. 1953)