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Seneca Falls Convention- Start Of First Wave
300 men and women rallied to the cause of equality for women and for women to have the right to vote. -
19th Amendment, Women's Right To Vote-First wave
New Zealand became the first sovereign state giving women the right to vote, followed by Australia almost a decade later, a couple of years later followed Finland. A dozen years later(1918), the UK allowed women over the age of 30 to vote. -
The Start Of The Second Wave
Many people believe that the first wave was sparked by the book "Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, which argues that after the second world war, women were encouraged to be housewives and only housewives. -
Equal Pay Act
Women got the right to get the same work as men, and equal pay for their efforts. This was signed by John.F. Kennedy and the law was made to stop the gender pay gap. -
Equal Rights Amendment- Second Wave
The equal rights amendment, which sought legal equality for women and banned discrimination on the basis of sex, which stopped businesses from having a biased/sexist mindset when hiring and in situations when one has to choose between a man and a woman, he can't make his choice over sex. This was passed by congress but sadly didn't turn into a law. A year later, Abortion was legalized -
#MeToo Movement
More recently, the #MeToo movement started for women who have been harrased or assaulted sexually to publicly address their problems. Allegations against many powerful men have come out, wherein situations like these, people can't deal with this problem alone and need the help of their community. -
Women's March 2017-Trumps Presidency
On the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, hundreds of thousands of people joined the Women’s March on Washington in D.C, where women and men marched as a massive protest aimed at the new administration. This march was in protest because of Donald Trump's sexist, anti-women, and offensive persona/comments. -
Women's March 2018
The women's march 2018 lead events in the United States, accompanied by events in Canada, the UK, Japan, Italy, and several other countries. The mission that the march is aimed towards is to gather the political power of diverse women and their communities to create a change in society. Millions of people all rallied up for this important cause, all groups in unity all around the world on the anniversary of the women's march 2017. -
Women's March 2019-Antisemitism
The 2019 Women's march, even though it had a lower turnout, it did not lower the importance, the march was an anti-semitism march, This march was put in place because of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan made anti-semitic remarks.
