Trecarichi

Abstract: Feminism had evolved significantly from the 19th and early 20th centuries when the first wave focused on securing legal rights like women’s suffrage. Feminist pioneers from the first wave, like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, laid the groundwork for gender equality by challenging societal norms and ensuring the right to vote for women. Though primarily limited to white, middle-class women at the time when we now look at the fourth-wave feminism that we are currently in, it has expanded different things: the workplace of quality, sexual harassment, and the gender pay gap. We now get to experience feminism not only from a legal standpoint but also from a digital and intersectional one. The opportunity for movements like #MeTooAnd #TimesUp has allowed feminism to give people a voice who usually or would feel like they don’t have one. Feminism‘s journey reflects the ongoing struggle for equality and justice in America and worldwide.