For Women
FEMINISM
Feminism is about all genders having equal rights and opportunities. It's about respecting diverse women's experiences, identities, knowledge and strengths, and striving to empower all women to realise their full rights.
First-wave feminism
First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on securing women's right to vote.
Second-wave feminism
Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades. It quickly spread across the Western world, with an aim to increase equality for women by gaining more than just the giving of a right or privilege.
Third-wave feminism
It began in the United States in the early 1990s .
third-wave feminists sought to question, reclaim, and redefine the ideas, words, and media that have transmitted ideas about womanhood, gender, beauty, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity, among other things.
Post feminism
Postfeminism is a term used to describe a societal perception that many or all of the goals of feminism have already been achieved.
Post-feminism gives the impression that equality has been achieved and that feminists can now focus on something else entirely when it's not the case
Black feminism
Black feminism : argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are inextricably bound together.
Classical liberal or libertarian feminism : It holds that women, as well as men, have a right to such freedom due to their status as self-owners.
What young people should know about feminism
There is a lot of types and waves of feminism but they're all focused on one important point which is equality and maybe the name of the movement gives the wrong impression that feminism is only about females but it's not true . Feminism concerns males , females and queer people as well . Wherever there is inequality there is feminism to stop it .
Imporatant points that people should know about feminism and feminists :
Being a feminist has nothing to do with Beauty or Gender .
Feminism is about gender EQUITY and EQUALITY.
Feminists do not hate men .
MEN could be FEMINISTS too .