== One Movement or Two? ==
Second Increasingly in the 1960s and 1970s, second wave feminism essentially broke diverged into two separate ideological movements: Equal rights feminism and radical feminism. These movements approached feminism from very different perspectives. Under Within equal-rights feminism women , the objective sought equality among with men in political and social spheres through , where legislation and laws such as legalization of abortion and efforts to ‘’the glass ceiling’’ in make women more established on the workforce equal to men were the working worldprimary goals. <ref> LeGates, Marlene. <i>In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society</i>. New York: Routledge, 2001, 347.</ref> The second approachRadical feminism, on the other hand, wanted much more radical feminism advocated the destruction of the patriarchal structure of change to society that oppressed women. Until this structure was destroyed, women’s oppression would continue. As long fundamentally saw it as patriarchal and needed to be altered if women were oppressed, to escape it was would difficult to eliminate any inequality because the oppression was the root of all other oppressions. <ref>LeGates, Marlene. <i>In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society,</i>. New York: Routledge, 2001, 357. </ref> Both ideologies eventually merged into ‘’Third Wave’’ of feminism. What separates There were age and racial differences within the two different wider feminist movements is the distinction between discrimination and oppression. Radical feminists would choose to focus on demolishing at the patriarchal oppressive structures that they saw as over-arching all other oppressionstime. The equal-rights feminists were largely white, older in age, and most came from affluent backgrounds. Radical feminists were made up younger white affluent women, and minority women of all ages who were active in the Civil Rights movement as well. <ref> LeGates, Marlene. In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. New York: Routledge, 2001, 352.</ref>
== Minorities ==