Second-Wave Feminism and Labour in Canada

Today's Canadian workplace seems to be quite diverse, with many religions, races and gender. However, despite positive actions and furnaces in the present era, many inequality and power problems still exist. A remarkable example is sexism. Working women face many challenges, such as low wages, harassment, male privileges in recruitment and promotion, lack of support in pregnancy and child rearing.

The first wave of feminism: the first wave of feminism is the period of feminist activity in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States from the 19th century to the early 20th century. It focuses mainly on legal (formally mandated) inequality to obtain women's voting rights (voting rights). The feminist movement refers to a series of reform campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, childbirth leave, equal salaries for equal labor, women's voting rights, sexual harassment, sexual violence. Priorities of campaigns vary from country to country, and vary from female genital resection in one country to glass ceilings in another country (barriers to minority and progress of women in the company hierarchy).

The first wave of feminism mainly focuses on voting rights and the legal barriers to the overthrow of gender equality (voting rights, property rights, etc.), the second wave of feminism extends the controversy to a wide range of problems There. Equality and public law are not equal. The second wave of feminism also draws attention to domestic violence and rape between spouses, rape crisis for abused women and the establishment of shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law. Its main effort was to pass equal rights modification (ERA) through the US Constitution, which was defeated by anti - feminist in 1982.

Feminist thought has a rich history and can be divided into three waves. At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism concentrated on official, political inequality, and the right to vote for women. In the 1960s, the second wave of feminism, also known as the Women's Liberation Movement, took note of the wider inequality including workplace, family and reproductive rights. At the moment, the third wave of feminism criticizes the first two waves of white women, feminism, mainly from advanced capitalist society. This movement emphasizes diversity and change and focuses on concepts such as globalization, post colonialism, post structuralism, post modernism. Modern feminist ideas tend to ignore the essential generalization of gender and gender (eg women are growing more naturally), the importance of interdisciplinary (eg race and sex) in identity I emphasize.