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Today, feminism is an ideology/theory that most people acknowledge, but may not fully understand. Historians and feminist/gender scholars alike have subscribed to defining today’s feminist theory, ideology and social/political movement as the ''third wave’’ wave '' of feminism. The existence of a third wave assumes that there was a first and second wave, and of course there was. The first wave was in the 1920s during the woman’s suffrage movement, and the second was during the late 1950s in to the 1980s. The purpose of this article will be to delve in to the history leading up to what historians call the ‘’second wave’’ of feminism and the movement behind it, explain the ideologies and theories that ignited it, who made up the movement, and it’s major contributions to the equality and state of women in the United States of America.