Feminism, in its second wave, women’s liberation movement guise, has passed its first half century. And what a success it has been! Betty Friedan’s frustrated housewife, bored with plumping pillows ...

ABC News spoke to feminists across the generations to define modern feminism. Feminism, the first wave of which began with the suffrage movement in the mid-1800s, looks vastly different today than it ...

Feminism is a broad church and the online discourse around it is so frequently dominated by conflict between different schools of feminism that it can be difficult to pinpoint what it’s all about. In ...

Feminism is a powerful movement that has been around for centuries, and it continues to shape our society today. But what exactly is feminism? In its most basic form, feminism is the belief that women ...

The fight for women’s right to vote in elections is known as the ‘suffragette movement’. By the end of the 19th century, this had become a worldwide movement, and the words ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist ...

Feminists never wanted women to “have it all.” The second-wave feminists of the 1960s and 70s published consciousness-raising pamphlets and lobbied for equal rights legislation—but their practical ...

4chan should have quit while it was ahead. A day after launching the hoax, /b/ was knocking back celebratory drinks. The plan was working: The hashtag #bikinibridge had been mentioned in more than ...

Rose Cooney, a member of the Iowa City Domestic Violence Intervention Program, said her experience working on the Hillary Clinton campaign could be described as frustratingly sexist. Cooney worked for ...

Most conservative women, if asked about the first wave of feminism, would voice general approval. It is seen as a rather pure approach to women’s issues, focused on protecting women and advancing ...

I am often asked by young women if we should take back the term “feminism.” It still carries the cachet of caring about women, and most of us are quite happy with the achievements of first-wave ...

In 1982, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce planned a seminar that claimed it would help executives “prepare for, or avoid entirely, confrontations with militant feminist organizing groups.” It was ...