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What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement?

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{{Mediawiki:kindleoasis}}[[File:Leffler_-_WomensLib1970_WashingtonDC.jpg|thumbnail|300 px|Women's Liberation March in Washington, D.C., 1970 by Warren K. Leffler]]Today, feminism is an ideology/theory that most people fail to fully understand. Feminism has been described as having three separate waves. The first wave of feminism started in the mid-19th Century and culminated with the women's suffrage movement. Historians and feminist/gender scholars describe today’s feminist theory, ideology and social/political movement as the ''third wave '' of feminism. The subject of this article, second Second wave feminism started in the late 1950s moved into the 1980s. This ‘’second wave’’ of feminism started after the women were forced out of the workplace after end of World War Two and essentially ended with the failure to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
== Leading up to the Second Wave ==

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