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Content: Because most societies privilege men as a group, social movements are nec - essary to achieve equality between women and men, with the understand- ing that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.1
Most scholars contend that feminism has evolved in three major waves. The 
first wave of feminismstarted in the mid-1800s when women demanded the right to vote.3A major event associated with this first wave occurred in 1848. About 300 women and men met in Seneca Falls, New York. At the Seneca Falls Convention, these participants established a “Declaration of Sentiments” as well as 12 resolutions. This declaration was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments stressed the need for reforms in marriage, divorce, property, and child custody laws. A major criticism of this convention was that the focus was primarily on white, upper-class women. Thus, working-class and black women were essentially invisible. These “invisible” women, however, did contribute to the 19th century women’s rights movement. For instance, Sojourner Truth delivered her well-known speech at an 1851 women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio.4
She delivered an impromptu speech that included her well-known question, “Ain’t I a woman?”