The Influence Of The Feminist Movement

Due to the thriving political resentment of the twentieth century, Americans forced a major shift in societal norms in the United States through rallies and intense rebellion. After the Civil Rights movement became a huge success for African American equality, similar minorities began the uphill battle to earning their inequality as well. Namely, the Feminist movement developed as housewives across the nation fought for the same basic rights awarded to men, now of all races: “The women’s movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had focused on gaining the right to vote. The feminist movement of the sixties and seventies was much more comprehensive in its goals, seeking equal rights in virtually every area of life” (Shi and