What is the reality of the status of women through the international arena? Everywhere you shall find that women are the subject to all kinds of social brutality. Ranging from the war field of Iraq to a rural household of the South-east Asia, not to speak of the developed European countries, at everywhere women are the subjects of inhumanity. Though there had been a surge of feminism in the earlier times, it somehow failed to produce the desired effect. But it should be said, that in a society no movement grows up or take shape all of a sudden. Indeed there is the need of a definite timing and also grooming. It is not enough to view the gendering of levels of capital as limiting life-opportunities; gender itself must be viewed as a capital and a strategy, with the power to cross fields. A child is gendered before it learns to speak. The gender capital gained as a child has repercussions throughout life; an infant that learns to be a woman will find that her femininity is both a constraint and an enabler; her habitus is gendered, as is her future. What is the need then? Well, in this regard it must be said that the second wave feminism had some notable contributions, which though felt largely within a small boundary, has some notable advancements. Now if we begin to comment on the second wave feminism, we shall have to accept that there were some spectacular progresses at that stipulated period. As a mark of protest against age old and conventional modes of production and male domination, their focus was on equal rights for women under the law. It is to be noted that their greatest accomplishments were in the arena of gaining women access to the world of careers and almost equal treatment in it. Witnessing this surge in the global perspective it should be said that the second wave feminism in contrast with the first one, was much more successful in all aspects. It was at this time that the crusaders made it clear that women was able to do anything that men could do and before many of their daughters were even born, women were out there doing it – everything that men could do…and more. Now in comparison to the second wave feminism, the third wave feminism happens to relate to issues and not some spunky girl style trends. Showing men that the women could do everything that they could do was necessary to gain access to the power structure, but it was hardly a place to stop and be satisfied. Men, in real terms, being in a dominant position in a family due to the economic strength could do all that they used to do alone because they had wives at home who were raising their children and making homes for them.

But on these days with the change of time, there has also been the change of consciousness. Our culture's career-model leaves no time for children and choosing to care for children instead is a sure road to dependency on a spouse who might not always be there and a probable road to poverty. Everyone works too hard to try to make this model work, above all the mothers who are starting to find themselves victim to a number of weird autoimmune disorders and syndromes as they run themselves into the ground. Does it signify liberation or victimization to the changing times embedded in the greed of mercantilism? Perhaps, there is the need of a third wave of protest to inculcate values of struggle!