Mainstream feminism’s shift towards concerning itself with self-defined women, rather than females, was only possible because of other changes in the movement. The so-called second wave, which started in the early 1960s and ran for about a quarter-century, had extended women’s demands for equality beyond voting and property rights to other systemic injustices, such as unequal pay, and to structural issues that affected women more than men, such as the lack of maternity leave and childcare. This was also when women created the first domestic-violence and rape-crisis services for women and
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