Harriet Martineau is Feminism is a movement to achieve the

often credited as being political, social and economic equality of the

one of the first female sexes. There are various branches of
sociologists. Others Feminism and there have been different
include Sylvia Walby waves of Feminism throughout history.
and Anne Oakley

Feminism is a conflict First wave Feminism was concerned with

Feminism

theory that suggests women gaining political equality with men

there is a conflict and culminated in the Suffragette and
between males and Suffragist movements of the early 1900s and
females as society is led to women being given equal rights to vote
patriarchal – i.e. it is
Second wave Feminism was concerned with
male dominated
women gaining social and economic equality,
challenging gender stereotypes and unfair
They suggest working practices – this led to legal reforms
women are such as Equal Pay and Sexual Discrimination
controlled by males laws in the 1970s
in all spheres of life:
family, education, Third wave Feminism was concerned with
work, law, media tackling the inequalities that women faced
and religion everyday and also the differences between
women’s experiences. This movement dealt
more with the intersectionality of gender
and class, ethnicity, sexuality and (dis)ability