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Feminism (Second-Wave Feminism (1971 and 1972, both houses of Congress…

- - - - Expansion of civil rights
      - Greater access to education
      - Greater access to employment
    - - More than 18 million women joined the war
      - Over 35% of women were employed
- - - - Challenged the conventional definition of gender, arguing that gender could be socially constructed, understood as an action, and exist on a spectrum.
        
        Transgender women and men have increasingly gained acceptance as allies and advocates for the feminist cause, with feminist groups such as the Third Wave Fund working to attain equal treatment for members of this population.
      - Adopted law professor and civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, which put forth that the human experience is a convergence of identities.
        
        a woman is not simply a woman but a member of an economic class, an ethnicity, an age group, and other groups that intersect with one another, making her experience of sexism, racism, and other forms of prejudice different than that of other women, even those within the same race or cultural background.