introduction to feminism

1.She was a constant victim of sexual harassment and found that other women just like her 'perceived ' it as a normal thing and wanted more women to not be afraid to speak about and not normalise it.

2.The everyday sexism project believes that women adressing their issues has lead to a significant progress  and a decrease in sexual harassment and more women have reported it which links to the idea of postmodernism that there has been a progress.

3.With new technology, the sexism project was more successful because it was more accessible to victims such as development of  mobile phones and of laptops.

4. I think that the everyday sexism project will not be needed in the future since there has been immense development in feminism such as the policy of equal pay act that meant it was illegal for women not to be paid the same as men .More victim are starting to speak up and campaigns such as the ME TOO movement has had a nationwide impact on all women and has raised awareness. Schools are also a lot more cautious of gender issues or any form of sexual harassment and have more strict policies on it.


Fourth wave

1.Networked feminism is the breaking down of the different types of feminism into different categories and the social struggle of woman on a number of different levels.

2.The ‘first wave of feminism’
began in the late 19th to early 20th
centuries, with a main focus on suffrage.
The ‘second wave’ began in the 1960s,
campaigning for the growth of equal
rights and leading to the Equal Pay
Act of 1970, amongst other equality
laws. Since the late 1990s, we are
believed to have entered the ‘third wave’
(often identified as post-feminism).
The new fourth wave of feminism is
also known as ‘networked feminism’. it
aims to tackle social
equality issues found
both on, and using,
modern technology. I agree that we are in the fourth wave due to examples such as the sexism project that is completely based online and is aimed to challenge social issues.

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4.I think that the everyday sexism project is a significant example  related to the fourth wave however i dont think these are based of recent developments because many policies and changes in education were made in the 20th century which contradicts the 4th wave movement being post 2010 and is based on the development network although these developments were made a quite while possibly in the period of the third wave which could indicate that we are still in the third wave.