Articles of category "Effects of feminism in the West"

While feminism has had a long history in the United States, it wasn't until the introduction of effective contraceptives in the 1960s that feminism began to reach out and affect the majority of women in this country. It seems that once women began to have effective control of the reproductive process, they began to realize that they could also control other areas of their lives as well. As a result there have been some significant changes in western culture.