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[[File:Leffler_-_WomensLib1970_WashingtonDC.jpg|left|400px|thumbnail|Women's Liberation March in Washington, D.C. in 1970]]
Today, feminism is an ideology/theory that most people fail to understand fully. Feminism has been described as having three separate waves. [[What was the First Wave Feminist Movement?|The First Wave Feminist Movement]] started in the mid-19th Century and culminated with the women's suffrage movement. The 2nd wave feminism started in the late 1950s moved into the 1980s.
Historians and feminist/gender scholars describe today’s feminist theory, ideology, and social/political movement as the ''third wave'' of feminism. The ‘’second wave’’ of feminism started after the women were forced out of the workplace after the end of World War Two and essentially ended with the failure to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Second-wave feminism splintered after criticism grew that the movement had focused on white women to the exclusion of everyone else.