Changes

First wave feminism was instrumental in giving women basic rights such as to vote and even administer their own property. While this achieved key goals, it was evident in countries such as the UK and the US that equality in voting did not translate to equality in the workplace or aspects of social acceptance such as marriage. Communist states emerged as early countries that embraced more equality, but in the West this took time as social norms began to change in the context of major wars and increasingly greater roles women played in society, both in a civil and political sense. This began to be seen evident by what eventually emerged as second wave feminists that became prominent by the 1960s.