Early 20th Century Feminist Movements

In the 19th and early 20th century, there was a time of feminist movement all around the world, especially in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Netherlands. It focused on legal topics, primarily on gaining women's rights. These feminist activities were referred to as the “first-wave feminism”. The term “first-wave” was devised in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in The New York Times Magazine. At that time, the women's movement was focused on discriminations, which it wished to make a distinction from the purposes of the former feminists.
The first wave of feminism was mostly driven by middle-class white women, the second phase involved women of color and rising nations, in search of sisterhood and unity and demanding, "Women's struggle is class struggle.” They started a determined effort to rid society top-to-bottom of sexism, from children's cartoons to the uppermost levels of government. The third phase of feminism arose in the mid-1990s and is informed by post-colonial and post-modern philosophy. In this phase
There have been huge changes for women in terms of employment in the past decades, with women started to move into salaried employment outside the home in ways that their grandmothers and even their mothers could only dream of. There are some prominent women chief executives in the work field. There are a slight but growing number of female leaders. Women are getting into employments that used to be done by men. Even those women employed in factories or sweatshops have more choice and independence than if they remained at home. Although more women are in employment, they are often still poorer paid than men, in part-time jobs or in the big informal employment sector with little protection and few privileges. In some places, the increase in women working is simply driven by the necessity of having two wages to make ends