feminist movements
Women's rights activism
Feminist movements are organized efforts to achieve political, economic, and social equality for women.
The term usually appears in plural because feminism has unfolded in distinct waves—suffrage campaigns in the early 20th century, the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s, and contemporary activism around issues like reproductive rights and workplace harassment.
Feminist movements have shaped labor law, voting rights, and cultural attitudes toward gender.
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- womanismBlack female-focused social theory
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
reproductive rights · birth control · activism · body autonomy · me too · consciousness raising · bra burning · women's rights · coalition building · political representation · Seneca Falls · voices · workplace equality · grassroots organizing · voting · gender roles · banners · marches
- Latin American Activismsocial movements, grassroots movements, indigenous movements, environmental activism, community organizing
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, notable women, women pioneers, women's liberation
- feminismgender equality, women's rights, patriarchy, women's liberation, sisterhood
- Women's Serviceswomen's centers, women's clinic, women's clinics, women's shelter, women's health clinic
- sexual freedomsexual liberation, sexual revolution, sexual freedom, free love, consent
- Modern FranceCharles de Gaulle, National Assembly, French politics, National Front, far right
feminist movementspatriarchy
Male-dominated social order
male supremacy · misogyny · male chauvinism · sexism · male dominance
feminist movementssocial conservatism
Ideology favoring established moral standards
traditionalism · Moral Majority · quietism · conformism · acquiescence
feminist movementslearned helplessness
Trauma-induced belief in powerlessness