Feminists have made great progress in attempting to get rid of those traditional stereotypes. However, some may argue that they have been replaced by equally disempowering stereotypes... FIRST WAVE FEMINISM Around mid 19th - early 20th century women fought for social and political equality. One of their biggest fights was the struggle for women's suffrage, which is the right to vote. In 1918 women won this fight which granted women over the age of 30 the right to vote. However, they kept fighting as they were still not equal with men, due to this, ten years later in 1928 women received the right to vote on equal terms as men. Women were concerned with their rights of education, employment and marriage laws. Because of their successes with being able to vote, they then proceeded to gain the right of higher education, married women property rights and the widening of access to professions such as medicine. SECOND WAVE FEMINISM The liberation movement of 1960's 197...