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Who is Emma Watson
She was the face of the HeForShe campaign when it launched at the UN in 2014
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What is the wage gap?
Seventy-seven cents to every dollar.
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What is feminism
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
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What is the 1990s- present day
The “Third Wave” refers to this time period
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Who is President Barack Obama
This United States president released a feminist essay on his 55th birthday. "That’s what twenty-first century feminism is about: the idea that when everybody is equal, we are all more free."
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Who is Beyoncé
This singer, often referred to as the Queen, is well-known for her amazing talent and her delicious Lemonade. She released an album that brought attention to the importance of intersectionality
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What is The #MeToo Movement
This movement began to spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace.
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What is intersectionality
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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What is suffragettes
What did the American women who advocated for the right to vote call themselves
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Who is Frederick Douglass
In an 1888 speech, this man stated that women should have the "power and authority" to present their own demands, and that a woman is "her own best representative."
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Who is Malala Yousafzai
This 21 year old is a Pakistani activist has been pushing against patriarchal social norms and encouraging young girls to demand access to education.
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What is the Women's March
This worldwide protest took place the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. According to organizers, the goal was to "send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights
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What is meninism
This "anti-feminist movement" is about ending oppression against men.
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What is Reproductive Rights
Margaret Sanger led the fight for what type of women’s rights?
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Who is Benedict Cumberbatch
In 2018 this actor stated that he would not accept a movie role unless the female lead would be paid equally.
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Who is Abigail Adams
This woman spoke out about women being included in the Declaration of Independence. She is also the wife of the second president of the United States.
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What is Planned Parenthood
This organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of reproductive rights.
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What is the patriarchy
Radical feminism sites this structure as the root of women's oppression
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What is the Miss America protest in Atlantic City, NJ
At this protest in 1969 feminist protestors symbolically threw out make up, hair, and fashion products often used in pageants.
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Who is Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, UK since 2016
This European mayor recently unveiled an equality campaign called #BehindEveryGreatCity, which calls on people and businesses to set equality goals and champions the achievements and contributions of women from all walks of life.
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Who is Madeline Albright
This woman was the first female secretary of state
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What is HeforShe
This is a solidarity campaign for the advancement of gender equality, initiated by UN. Its goal is to achieve equality by encouraging all genders to partake as agents of change and take action against negative stereotypes and behaviors.
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What is separatist feminism
The belief that society is completely constructed by patriarchy, therefore the only way to end gender based oppression is to remove oneself from all male influence, generally living in a self-sustained colony of woman-identified women.
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Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
Best known for her novel The Second Sex, this author work was called pornography and forbidden by the Vatican. She said: “All oppression creates a state of war.”
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John Stoltenberg
In his 1989 book Refusing to Be a Man, this founder of the group "Men Can Stop Rape" argues that men need to create and embrace a less toxic version of masculinity that is based on respect rather than misogyny.
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