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The second wave of feminism is usually started from the 1960s to the 1980s, it was a kind of reaction of women after the end of the second world war, the second wave voiced about right domestic violence, workplace safety issues. The feminist took the effort to make women’s image equal stop considering women of inferior status. The second wave of feminism on both private and public injustice. Women were only doing household chores and men dominate everything. Many organizations and the first lady supported women for getting support women they demanded some laws for women equal pay in the workplace and paid maternity leave, good childcare policies, and health care policies for women.
These women also raised the problem of racial inequality for white women to get opportunities and higher pay for everything whereas black women were treated with very wrong behavior. The second wave was pretty successful because many legal and cultural qualities were provided or discussions were started happening. In India 19th century some males reformers fight against some social evils to established strict legal action to stop practicing child marriage and sati. here many groups were empowering women at that time not fully independent countries slowly women’s problems started raising in the 20th century. Many feminist leaders, journalists, and other such great people confronted women issues and also wrote articles against patriarchal standards national organization for women was established in the year 1966 and it helps women in making second-wave feminism successful.