Question

How does the Second wave of Asian women’s organizing differ from the First Wave of Feminism? Why do they differ?

Answer 1

The first-wave feminism was focused primarily on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles such as; rights to gender equality e.g., voting rights and property.

The second-wave feminism broadened the address to the wider range of issues like sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. Attention to domestic violence and marital rape, the establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law were also highlighted in this wave of feminism.