Second Wave Feminism

Since conquering the battle for women to vote, time went by in between the 1920's until the 1960's when feminists were still active, but a new wave had yet to occur. By the mid 1960's women wanted more involvement in high education and wanted to shatter the picture of a stay at home mom who cooked and cleaned and took after the children.

The 1950's and 1960's were a time when white picket fences and Leave it to Beaver were completley normal, but within this pop culture image, there was a lot missing. Blacks all throughout America were fighting to gain equal rights, and fight the "seperate but equal" law that had been instated. While the Civil Rights Movement was going on, women were also fighting to have equal access to jobs, money, and education in the same way that men did.