Main Issues

First Wave Feminism Goals: (18th C to 1960's)

• Suffrage
• Respect from men

Second Wave Feminism Goals: (1960s-1980s)

• Sparked by Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

• Gender equality in laws and culture
• Equal Rights Act
• End to discrimination
• Legalization of Abortion

Third Wave Feminism Goals: (1990's to present)

• Response to failure of second wave goals
• Less direct, focused more on achievements of women
• Started to represent the younger women
• Mixed in issues of race