Feminism: What It Is and Why It Matters

Do you know what feminism means? If you Google it, or look it up in a dictionary, it is defined as “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men.”

It’s a pretty straight-forward definition — women should have the same rights and opportunities as men to make their own decisions on who they are and what they want to be. At its core, the women’s rights movement is for gender equality.

The feminist movement is far from new. Beginning in 1848, it has seen support rise and fall. It took until 1920 for women to get the right to vote, and the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment was process decades in the making. More recently, several world events, business people and celebrities have brought renewed attention to the movement.

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