feminism

• gender pay gap

  • women earn half of a man's lifetime earnings
  • lower pensions
  • have to work part time due to duties
• first wave

  • suffragettes
  • fights for equal rights
• second wave

  • equal pay
  • free contraception
• third wave

  • equal opportunities
  • ditching stereotypes
  • encouraging feminism
• marxist feminists

  • social class is a big factor
• radical feminists

  • sexual revolution
  • physical change
• liberal feminists

  • legal change
• eval

  • raised awareness of inequality in workplace, legislation: equal pay act 1970 + sex discrimination Act 1975
  • ignores social class + ethnicity