The term “feminism” dates back as far as the early 1800’s, here it was first coined as “feminisme” by a French philosopher. The word has since been at the forefront of multiple women’s rights movements and reformations throughout Europe, North America, and is spreading throughout the rest of the globe. The term feminism, and its associated noun feminist, has become a controversial word to represent gender-rights movements in the modern world. Some view the term as empowering to all women, raising the bar of equality of women to that of men in our society. It is also argued that feminist movemets made significant strides for women’s access to education, their…

To preface, I am limited to both my personal experience and knowledge in defining the term “feminism”. With that, I believe the word is defined as the empowerment of all women to achieve social equality with men. When I say “equality” I don’t necessarily mean that females must be physically and emotionally equal to males – it is clear that biological differences among the two sexes yield inevitable advantages and disadvantages on both sides. Instead, what I mean by equality is that we are not treated differently because of these differences. When I first heard of the term feminism I didn’t quite have this definition. I associated the word with…