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The ‘’second wave’’ was an extremely important time feminist movement proved to be a major social transition for women who no longer wanted to subscribe to Western countries and the United States from the traditional public 1960s and private spheres of societylater. They no longer accepted the housewife role Major social change, such as mandatory, they fought for women's participation in the right to do what they wanted with their bodieslabor force, they fought to end sexual and increased prosperity forced a major social awareness movement that questioned the roles of gender oppression, and some in society. Major works of literature began to fight against racism question perceived traditional gender roles and exposed social problems created by such roles on women. Two movements emerged within the broader second wave feminist movement itself, which were the more mainstream and radical elements of feminism. The contribution While one worked to feminist theory change society from within, using legislation and social pressure, the other, radical movement questions fundamentally if society's hierarchical and ideology patriarchal nature were the main problem. Both these movements made major contributions, however, through their influence on society in general, where today many things we take for granted, such as women in the workforce, only became increasingly acceptable after the 1960s. Today, a woman delaying raising a family is enormousnot often questioned by society for such a choice, but this was not the norm in the pre-1960s US and parts of Europe. Later, the concept merger of intersectionality is now one racial and other social inequality was seen as part of the most important key terms when learning about feminism todaywider social struggles in society. Ultimately, the ‘’ second wave’’ wave feminist movement gave women the opportunity to start conversations about how to fight against their social inequality and begin to think about gender, identity, sexuality, race, and class as all equally important factors. The ‘’third wave’’ is now so-called third wave, more greatly focused on gay/lesbian and racial issues, in fact can be argued to be informed by and constantly rethinking and dismantling some of the ‘’second second wave rhetoric, but is undeniably grateful to that had emerged late in the fight the ‘’second wave’’ continued1970s as race and broader social inequality issues emerged.