equality movements
Fights for fairness
Equality movements are organized efforts to secure equal rights, opportunities, or treatment for groups facing discrimination.
The term encompasses campaigns for civil rights, women's suffrage, LGBTQ rights, disability rights, and similar causes: The equality movements of the 1960s transformed American law.
The plural form acknowledges that different groups pursue equality through distinct but often allied struggles.
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- gender equityFair treatment across sexes
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
- anti-racismCombating ethnic discrimination actively
disability advocacy · wealth redistribution · level playing field · LGBTQ+ rights · multiculturalism · minority representation · fair wages · living wage · social justice · coalition building · intersectionality · human rights advocacy · we shall overcome · freedom march · affirmative action · indigenous rights · voting rights · anti-corruption efforts
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, women's rights, feminist novels, feminist themes
- Political Inclusionminority rights, minority voters, minority leaders, voter access, political participation
equality movementswhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
apartheid · male supremacy · fascism · Jim Crow · caste system
equality movementsauthoritarianism
Concentrated, unchecked governmental power
totalitarianism · oligarchy · plutocracy · theocracy · feudalism
equality movementsconservative backlash
Traditionalist reaction against reform