UEL DV1101- Core Topic- Feminism

Feminism is a political and social movement that since being put into effect has completely changed how woman are treated throughout the world. Feminism is changing the way that men see woman, after all in the past woman were treated very poorly and didn’t have the same rights as a man. Feminism is for the equal treatment of men and women and just because of a person’s gender it does not mean they should be at any disadvantage. During the industrial revolution is when feminism really grew and had a major effect. Allot of the women were working in factories in appalling working conditions and started to want education and better things. But during the 1960s was when feminism really burst into life again in the US as part of a radical culture that included Civil Rights and sexual liberation. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was a bestseller in 1963. Feminist groups campaigned on issues such as childcare, health, welfare, education, abortion. Consciousness-raising groups proliferated. In Europe, Canada and Australasia too, new ideas and laws were changing society.