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It quickly spread across the Western world, with an aim to increase equality for women by gaining more than just enfranchisement. Issues addressed by the movement included rights regarding domestic issues such as clothing and employment. In the 1960s ( and in fact throughout much of the early 20th century ), women did not tend to seek employment due to their engagement with domestic and household duties, which was seen as their primary duty but often left them isolated within the home and estranged from politics, economics, and law making. Whereas first - wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality ( e.g., voting rights and property rights ), second - wave feminism broadened the debate to include a wider range of issues : sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. Second - wave feminism also drew attention to the issues of domestic violence and marital rape, engendered rape - crisis centers and women 's shelters, and brought about changes in custody laws and divorce law. Feminist - owned bookstores, credit unions, and restaurants were among the key meeting spaces and economic engines of the movement. Many historians view the second - wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the intra-feminism disputes of the feminist sex wars over issues such as sexuality and pornography, which ushered in the era of third - wave feminism in the early 1990s. Contents 1 Overview in the United States 2 Overview outside the United States 3 Businesses 4 Music and popular culture 4.1 `` I Am Woman '' 4.2 Olivia Records 4.3 Women 's music 4.4 Film 5 Beginning and conscious raising 5.1 The liberal feminist movement 5.2 The radical feminist movement 6 Social changes 6.1 Use of birth control 6.2 Domestic violence and sexual harassment 7 Education 7.1 Title IX 7.2 Coeducation 7.2. 1 Seven Sisters Colleges 7.2. 2 Mississippi University for Women 7.2. 3 Mills College 7.2. 4 Other colleges 8 Criticism 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Overview in the United States The second wave of feminism in America came as a delayed reaction against the renewed domesticity of women after World War II : the late 1940s post-war boom, which was an era characterized by an unprecedented economic growth, a baby boom, a move to family - oriented suburbs, and the ideal of companionate marriages. This life was clearly illustrated by the media of the time ; for example television shows such as Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver idealized domesticity. Some important events laid the groundwork for the second wave. French writer Simone de Beauvoir had in the 1940s examined the notion of women being perceived as `` other '' in the patriarchal society. She went on to conclude in her 1949 treatise The Second Sex that male - centered ideology was being accepted as a norm and enforced by the ongoing development of myths, and that the fact that women are capable of getting pregnant, lactating, and menstruating is in no way a valid cause or explanation to place them as the `` second sex ''. This book was translated from French to English ( with some of its text excised ) and published in America in 1953. In 1960 the Food and Drug Administration approved the combined oral contraceptive pill, which was made available in 1961. This made it easier for women to have careers without having to leave due to unexpectedly becoming pregnant. External video Prospects of Mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt ; What Status For Women ?, 59 : 07, 1962. Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, interviews President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg and others, Open Vault from WGBH The administration of President Kennedy made women 's rights a key issue of the New Frontier, and named women ( such as Esther Peterson ) to many high - ranking posts in his administration. Kennedy also established a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt and comprising cabinet officials ( including Peterson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ), senators, representatives, businesspeople, psychologists, sociologists, professors, activists, and public servants. There were other actions by women in wider society, presaging their wider engagement in politics which would come with the second wave. In 1961, 50,000 women in 60 cities, mobilized by Women Strike for Peace, protested above ground testing of nuclear bombs and tainted milk. In 1963 Betty Friedan, influenced by The Second Sex, wrote the bestselling book The Feminine Mystique. Discussing primarily white women, she explicitly objected to how women were depicted in the mainstream media, and how placing them at home limited their possibilities and wasted potential. She had helped conduct a very important survey using her old classmates from Smith College. This survey revealed that the women who played a role at home and the work force were more satisfied with their life compared to the women who stayed home. The women who stayed home showed feelings of agitation and sadness. She concluded that many of these unhappy women had emerged themselves in the idea that they should not have any ambitions outside their home. Friedan described this as `` The Problem That Has No Name ''. The perfect nuclear family image depicted and strongly marketed at the time, she wrote, did not reflect happiness and was rather degrading for women. This book is widely credited with having begun second - wave feminism in the United States. Though it is widely accepted that the movement lasted from the 1960s into the early 1980s, the exact years of the movement are more difficult to pinpoint and are often disputed. The movement is usually believed to have begun in 1963, when `` Mother of the Movement '' Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, and President John F. Kennedy 's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women released its report on gender inequality. The report revealed, that there was gender inequality, but also recommended changing it by giving paid maternity leave, greater access to education, and help with child care, along with Friedan 's book, which spoke to the discontent of many women ( especially housewives ), led to the formation of many local, state, and federal government women 's groups as well as many independent feminist organizations. Friedan was referencing a `` movement '' as early as 1964. The movement grew with legal victories such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court ruling of 1965. In 1966 Friedan joined other women and men to found the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) ; Friedan would be named as the organization 's first president. Despite the early successes NOW achieved under Friedan 's leadership, her decision to pressure the Equal Employment Opportunity to use Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to enforce more job opportunities among American women met with fierce opposition within the organization. Siding with arguments among several of the group 's African - American members, many of NOW 's leaders were convinced that the vast number of male African - Americans who lived below the poverty line were in need of more job opportunities than women within the middle and upper class. Friedan stepped down as president in 1969. In 1963, freelance journalist Gloria Steinem gained widespread popularity among feminists after a diary she authored while working undercover as a Playboy Bunny waitress at the Playboy Club was published as a two - part feature in the May and June issues of Show. In her diary, Steinem alleged the club was mistreating its waitresses in order to gain male customers and exploited the Playboy Bunnies as symbols of male chauvinism, noting that the club 's manual instructed the Bunnies that `` there are many pleasing ways they can employ to stimulate the club 's liquor volume ''. By 1968, Steinem had become arguably the most influential figure in the movement and support for legalized abortion and federally funded day - cares had become the two leading objectives for feminists. Amongst the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full affirmative action rights to women, a 1968 EEOC decision ruling illegal sex - segregated help wanted ads, Title IX and the Women 's Educational Equity Act ( 1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality ), Title X ( 1970, health and family planning ), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ( 1974 ), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the outlawing of marital rape ( although not outlawed in all states until 1993 ), and the legalization of no - fault divorce ( although not legalized in all states until 2010 ), a 1975 law requiring the U.S. Military Academies to admit women, and many Supreme Court cases such as Reed v. Reed of 1971 and Roe v. Wade of 1973. However, the changing of social attitudes towards women is usually considered the greatest success of the women 's movement. In January 2013, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the longtime ban on women serving in US military combat roles had been lifted. The US Department of Defense plans to integrate women into all combat positions by 2016. Second - wave feminism also affected other movements, such as the civil rights movement and the student 's rights movement, as women sought equality within them. In 1965 Casey Hayden and Mary King published `` Sex and Caste : A Kind of Memo '' detailing women 's inequality within the civil rights organization SNCC. In June 1967 Jo Freeman attended a `` free school '' course on women at the University of Chicago led by Heather Booth and Naomi Weisstein. She invited them to organize a woman 's workshop at the then - forthcoming National Conference of New Politics ( NCNP ), to be held over Labor Day weekend 1967 in Chicago. At that conference a woman 's caucus was formed, and it ( led by Freeman and Shulamith Firestone ) tried to present its own demands to the plenary session. However, the women were told their resolution was not important enough for a floor discussion, and when through threatening to tie up the convention with procedural motions they succeeded in having their statement tacked to the end of the agenda, it was never discussed. When the National Conference for New Politics Director Willam F. Pepper refused to recognize any of the women waiting to speak and instead called on someone to speak about the American Indian, five women, including Firestone, rushed the podium to demand to know why. But Willam F. Pepper patted Firestone on the head and said, `` Move on little girl ; we have more important issues to talk about here than women 's liberation '', or possibly, `` Cool down, little girl. We have more important things to talk about than women 's problems. '' Freeman and Firestone called a meeting of the women who had been at the `` free school '' course and the women 's workshop at the conference ; this became the first Chicago women 's liberation group. It was known as the Westside group because it met weekly in Freeman 's apartment on Chicago 's west side. After a few months Freeman started a newsletter which she called Voice of the women 's liberation movement. It circulated all over the country ( and in a few foreign countries ), giving the new movement of women 's liberation its name. Many of the women in the Westside group went on to start other feminist organizations, including the Chicago Women 's Liberation Union. In 1968, an SDS organizer at the University of Washington told a meeting about white college men working with poor white men, and `` ( h ) e noted that sometimes after analyzing societal ills, the men shared leisure time by ' balling a chick together. ' He pointed out that such activities did much to enhance the political consciousness of poor white youth. A woman in the audience asked, ' And what did it do for the consciousness of the chick ? ' '' ( Hole, Judith, and Ellen Levine, Rebirth of Feminism, 1971, pg. 120 ). After the meeting, a handful of women formed Seattle 's first women 's liberation group. The second wave of the feminist movement also marks the emergence of women 's studies as a legitimate field of study. In 1970 San Diego State University was the first university in the United States to offer a selection of women 's studies courses. The 1977 National Women 's Conference in Houston, Texas presented an opportunity for women 's liberation groups to address a multitude of women 's issues. At the conference, delegates from around the country gathered to create a National Plan of Action, which offered 26 planks on matters such as women 's health, women 's employment, and child care. By the early 1980s, it was largely perceived that women had met their goals and succeeded in changing social attitudes towards gender roles, repealing oppressive laws that were based on sex, integrating the `` boys ' clubs '' such as military academies, the United States armed forces, NASA, single - sex colleges, men 's clubs, and the Supreme Court, and illegalizing gender discrimination. However, in 1982 adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution failed, having been ratified by only 35 states, leaving it three states short of ratification. Second - wave feminism was largely successful, with the failure of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and Nixon 's veto of the Comprehensive Child Development Bill of 1972 ( which would have provided a multibillion - dollar national day care system ) the only major legislative defeats. Efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment have continued. Ten states have adopted constitutions or constitutional amendments providing that equal rights under the law shall not be denied because of sex, and most of these provisions mirror the broad language of the Equal Rights Amendment. Furthermore, many women 's groups are still active and are major political forces. As of 2011, more women earn bachelor 's degrees than men, half of the Ivy League presidents are women, the numbers of women in government and traditionally male - dominated fields have dramatically increased, and in 2009 the percentage of women in the American workforce temporarily surpassed that of men. The salary of the average American woman has also increased over time, although as of 2008 it is only 77 % of the average man 's salary, a phenomenon often referred to as the gender pay gap. Whether this is due to discrimination is very hotly disputed, however economists and sociologists have provided evidence to that effect. Second - wave feminism ended in the early 1980s with the feminist sex wars and was succeeded by third - wave feminism in the early 1990s. Overview outside the United States In 1967, at the International Alliance of Women Congress held in London, delegates were made aware of an initiative by the UN Commission on the Status of Women to study and evaluate the situation of women in their countries. Many organizations and NGOs like the Association of Business and Professional Women, Soroptimists Clubs, as well as teaching and nursing associations developed committees in response to the initiative to prepare evaluations on the conditions of women and urge their governments to establish National Commissions on the Status of Women. In 1967 `` The Discontent of Women '', by Joke Kool - Smits, was published ; the publication of this essay is often regarded as the start of second - wave feminism in the Netherlands. In this essay, Smit describes the frustration of married women, saying they are fed up being solely mothers and housewives. In Turkey and Israel, second - wave feminism began in the 1980s. Businesses Feminist activists have established a range of feminist businesses, including women 's bookstores, feminist credit unions, feminist presses, feminist mail - order catalogs, feminist restaurants, and feminist record labels. These businesses flourished as part of the second and third waves of feminism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Music and popular culture Second - wave feminists viewed popular culture as sexist, and created pop culture of their own to counteract this. `` One project of second wave feminism was to create ' positive ' images of women, to act as a counterweight to the dominant images circulating in popular culture and to raise women 's consciousness of their oppressions. '' `` I Am Woman '' Main article : I Am Woman Australian artist Helen Reddy 's song `` I Am Woman '' played a large role in popular culture and became a feminist anthem ; Reddy came to be known as a `` feminist poster girl '' or a `` feminist icon ''. Reddy told interviewers that the song was a `` song of pride about being a woman ''. The song was released in 1972. A few weeks after `` I Am Woman '' entered the charts, radio stations refused to play it. Some music critics and radio stations believed the song represented `` all that is silly in the Women 's Lib Movement ''. Helen Reddy then began performing the song on numerous television variety shows. As the song gained popularity, women began calling radio stations and requesting to hear `` I Am Woman '' played. The song re-entered the charts and reached number one in December 1972. `` I Am Woman '' also became a protest song that women sang at feminist rallies and protests. Olivia Records Main article : Olivia Records In 1973, a group of five feminists created the first women 's owned - and - operated record label, called Olivia Records. They created the record label because they were frustrated that major labels were slow to add female artists to their rosters. One of Olivia 's founders, Judy Dlugacz, said that, `` It was a chance to create opportunities for women artists within an industry which at that time had few ''. Initially, they had a budget of $4,000, and relied on donations to keep Olivia Records alive. With these donations, Olivia Records created their first LP, an album of feminist songs entitled I Know You Know. The record label originally relied on volunteers and feminist bookstores to distribute their records, but after a few years their records began to be sold in mainstream record stores. Olivia Records was so successful that the company relocated from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles in 1975. Olivia Records released several records and albums, and their popularity grew. As their popularity grew, an alternative, specialized music industry grew around it. This type of music was initially referred to as `` lesbian music '' but came to be known as `` women 's music ''. However, although Olivia Records was initially meant for women, in the 1980s it tried to move away from that stereotype and encouraged men to listen to their music as well. Women 's music Main article : Women 's music Women 's music consisted of female musicians combined music with politics to express feminist ideals. Cities throughout the United States began to hold Women 's Music Festivals, all consisting of female artists singing their own songs about personal experiences. The first Women 's Music Festival was held in 1974 at the University of Illinois. In 1979, the Michigan Womyn 's Music Festival attracted 10,000 women from across America. These festivals encouraged already - famous female singers, such as Laura Nyro and Ellen McIllwaine, to begin writing and producing their own songs instead of going through a major record label. Many women began performing hard rock music, a traditionally male - dominated genre. One of the most successful examples included the sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, who formed the famous hard rock band Heart. Film Both the creation and subjects of motion pictures began to reflect second - wave feminist ideals, leading to the development of feminist film theory. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, female filmmakers that were involved in part of the new wave of feminist film included Joan Micklin Silver ( Between the Lines ), Claudia Weill ( Girlfriends ), Chantal Akerman ( Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ), Stephanie Rothman, and Susan Seidelman ( Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan ). Other notable films that explored feminist subject matters that were made at this time include the film adaptation of Lois Gould 's novel Such Good Friends and Rosemary 's Baby. The documentary She 's Beautiful When She 's Angry was the first documentary film to cover feminism 's second wave. Beginning and conscious raising The beginnings of second - wave feminism can be studied by looking at the two branches that the movement formed in : the liberal feminists and the radical feminists. The liberal feminists, led by figures such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem advocated for federal legislation to be passed that would promote and enhance the personal and professional lives of women. On the other hand, radical feminists, such as Sandra `` Casey '' Hayden and Mary King, adopted the skills and lessons that they had learned from their work with civil rights organizations such as the Students for a Democratic Society and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and created a platform to speak on the violent and sexist issues women faced while working with the larger Civil Rights Movement. The liberal feminist movement Main article : Liberal feminism After being removed from the workforce, by either personal or social pressures, many women in the post-war America returned to the home or were placed into female only jobs in the service sector. After the publication of Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, many women connected to the feeling of isolation and dissatisfaction that the book detailed. The book itself, however, was not a call to action, but rather a plea for self - realization and conscious raising among middle - class women throughout America. Many of these women organized to form the National Organization for Women in 1966, whose `` Statement of Purpose '' declared that the right women had to equality was one small part of the nationwide civil rights revolution that was happening during the 1960s. The radical feminist movement Main article : Radical feminism Women who favoured radical feminism collectively spoke of being forced to remain silent and obedient to male leaders in New Left organizations. They spoke out about how they were not only told to do clerical work such as stuffing envelopes and typing speeches, but there was also an expectation for them to sleep with the male activists that they worked with. While these acts of sexual harassment took place, the young women were neglected their right to have their own needs and desires recognized by their male cohorts. Many radical feminists had learned from these organizations how to think radically about their self - worth and importance, and applied these lessons in the relationships they had with each other. Social changes Use of birth control Finding a need to talk about the advantage of the Food and Drug Administration passing their approval for the use of birth control in 1960, liberal feminists took action in creating panels and workshops with the goal to promote conscious raising among sexually active women. These workshops also brought attention to issues such as venereal diseases and safe abortion. Radical feminists also joined this push to raise awareness among sexually active women. While supporting the `` Free Love Movement '' of the late 1960s and early 1970s, young women on college campuses distributed pamphlets on birth control, sexual diseases, abortion, and cohabitation. While white women were concerned with obtaining birth control for all, women of color were at risk of sterilization because of these same medical and social advances : `` Native American, African American, and Latina groups documented and publicized sterilization abuses in their communities in the 1960s and 70s, showing that women had been sterilized without their knowledge or consent... In the 1970s, a group of women... founded the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse ( CESA ) to stop this racist population control policy begun by the federal government in the 1940s -- a policy that had resulted in the sterilization of over one - third of all women of child - bearing age in Puerto Rico. '' The use of forced sterilization disproportionately affected women of color and women from lower socioeconomic statuses. Sterilization was often done under the ideology of eugenics. Thirty states within the United States authorized legal sterilizations under eugenic sciences. Domestic violence and sexual harassment The second - wave feminist movement also took a strong stance against physical violence and sexual assault in both the home and the workplace. In 1968, NOW successfully lobbied the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to pass an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevented discrimination based on sex in the workplace. This attention to women 's rights in the workplace also prompted the EEOC to add sexual harassment to its `` Guidelines on Discrimination '', therefore giving women the right to report their bosses and coworkers for acts of sexual assault. Domestic violence, such as battery and rape, were rampant in post-war America. Women were often abused as a result of daily frustration in their husband 's lives, and as late as 1975 domestic battery and rape were both socially acceptable and legal as women were seen to be the possessions of their husbands. Because of activists in the second - wave feminist movement, and the local law enforcement agencies that they worked with, by 1982 three hundred shelters and forty - eight state coalitions had been established to provide protection and services for women who had been abused by male figures in their lives. Education Title IX Main article : Title IX Coeducation One debate which developed in the United States during this time period revolved around the question of coeducation. Most men 's colleges in the United States adopted coeducation, often by merging with women 's colleges. In addition, some women 's colleges adopted coeducation, while others maintained a single - sex student body. Seven Sisters colleges Two of the Seven Sister colleges made transitions during and after the 1960s. The first, Radcliffe College, merged with Harvard University. Beginning in 1963, students at Radcliffe received Harvard diplomas signed by the presidents of Radcliffe and Harvard and joint commencement exercises began in 1970. The same year, several Harvard and Radcliffe dormitories began swapping students experimentally and in 1972 full co-residence was instituted. The departments of athletics of both schools merged shortly thereafter. In 1977, Harvard and Radcliffe signed an agreement which put undergraduate women entirely in Harvard College. In 1999 Radcliffe College was dissolved and Harvard University assumed full responsibility over the affairs of female undergraduates. Radcliffe is now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Women 's Studies at Harvard University. The second, Vassar College, declined an offer to merge with Yale University and instead became coeducational in 1969. The remaining Seven Sisters decided against coeducation. Mount Holyoke College engaged in a lengthy debate under the presidency of David Truman over the issue of coeducation. On November 6, 1971, `` after reviewing an exhaustive study on coeducation, the board of trustees decided unanimously that Mount Holyoke should remain a women 's college, and a group of faculty was charged with recommending curricular changes that would support the decision. '' Smith College also made a similar decision in 1971. In 1969, Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College ( then all male ) developed a system of sharing residential colleges. When Haverford became coeducational in 1980, Bryn Mawr discussed the possibly of coeducation as well, but decided against it. In 1983, Columbia University began admitting women after a decade of failed negotiations with Barnard College for a merger along the lines of Harvard and Radcliffe ( Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia since 1900, but it continues to be independently governed ). Wellesley College also decided against coeducation during this time. Mississippi University for women In 1982, in a 5 -- 4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan that the Mississippi University for Women would be in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment 's Equal Protection Clause if it denied admission to its nursing program on the basis of gender. Mississippi University for Women, the first public or government institution for women in the United States, changed its admissions policies and became coeducational after the ruling. In what was her first opinion written for the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, `` In limited circumstances, a gender - based classification favoring one sex can be justified if it intentionally and directly assists members of the sex that is disproportionately burdened. '' She went on to point out that there are a disproportionate number of women who are nurses, and that denying admission to men `` lends credibility to the old view that women, not men, should become nurses, and makes the assumption that nursing is a field for women a self - fulfilling prophecy ''. In the dissenting opinions, Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and William H. Rehnquist suggested that the result of this ruling would be the elimination of publicly supported single - sex educational opportunities. This suggestion has proven to be accurate as there are no public women 's colleges in the United States today and, as a result of United States v. Virginia, the last all - male public university in the United States, Virginia Military Institute, was required to admit women. The ruling did not require the university to change its name to reflect its coeducational status and it continues a tradition of academic and leadership development for women by providing liberal arts and professional education to women and men. Mills College On May 3, 1990, the Trustees of Mills College announced that they had voted to admit male students. This decision led to a two - week student and staff strike, accompanied by numerous displays of nonviolent protests by the students. At one point, nearly 300 students blockaded the administrative offices and boycotted classes. On May 18, the Trustees met again to reconsider the decision, leading finally to a reversal of the vote. Other colleges Sarah Lawrence College declined an offer to merge with Princeton University, becoming coeducational in 1969. Connecticut College also adopted coeducation during the late 1960s. Wells College, previously with a student body of women only, became co-educational in 2005. Douglass College, part of Rutgers University, was the last publicly funded women 's only college until 2007 when it became coed. Criticism Alice Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, whose passage became an unachieved goal of the feminist movement in the 1970s Beginning in the late 20th century, numerous feminist scholars have critiqued the second wave in the United States as reducing feminist activity into a homogenized and whitewashed chronology of feminist history that ignores the voices and contributions of many women of color, working - class women, and LGBT women. The historiography of the United States ' second - wave feminism has been criticized for failing to acknowledge and analyze the multiple sites of feminist insurgencies of women of color, silencing and ignoring the diverse pre-political and political developments that occurred during this time. It has been suggested that the dominant historical narratives of the feminist movement focuses on white, East Coast, and predominantly middle - class women and women 's consciousness - raising groups, disregarding the experiences and contributions of lesbians, women of color, and working - class and lower - class women. Chela Sandoval called the dominant narratives of the women 's liberation movement `` hegemonic feminism '' because it essentializes the feminist historiography to an exclusive population of women, which assumes that all women experience the same oppressions as the white, East Coast, and predominantly middle - class women. This restricting view purportedly ignored the oppressions women face determined by their race, class, and sexuality, and gave rise to women - of - color feminisms that separated from the women 's liberation movement, such as Black feminism, Africana womanism, and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc that emerged at California State University, Long Beach, which was founded by Anna NietoGomez, due to the Chicano Movement 's sexism. Many feminist scholars see the generational division of the second wave as problematic. Second wavers are typically essentialized as the Baby Boomer generation, when in actuality many feminist leaders of the second wave were born before World War II ended. This generational essentialism homogenizes the group that belongs to the wave and asserts that every person part of a certain demographic generation shared the same ideologies, because ideological differences were considered to be generational differences. Feminist scholars, particularly those from the late 20th and early 21st centuries to the present day, have revisited diverse writings, oral histories, artwork, and artifacts of women of color, working - class women, and lesbians during the early 1960s to the early 1980s to decenter what they view as the dominant historical narratives of the second wave of the women 's liberation movement, allowing the scope of the historical understanding of feminist consciousness to expand and transform. By recovering histories that they believe have been erased and overlooked, these scholars purport to establish what Maylei Blackwell termed `` retrofitted memory ''. Blackwell describes this as a form of `` countermemory '' that creates a transformative and fluid `` alternative archive '' and space for women 's feminist consciousness within `` hegemonic narratives ''. 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Question: who is credited with starting the second wave of the women's rights movement in the united states
Answer: Betty Friedan