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Who is Emma Watson?
The face of the HeforShe Campaign when it launched in 2014
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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 feminism?
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes
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What is Roe v. Wade?
This court case gave pregnant women the Constitutional liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government interference
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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 #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 intersectionalism?
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group
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What is the right to vote?
First wave feminism focused on obtaining this right
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Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
The first female Justice appointed to the Supreme Court
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What is the wage gap?
Seventy-seven cents to every dollar.
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What is mansplaining?
When a man explains something to a woman in a condescending or patronizing way
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What is 1963?
This was the year the Equal Pay Act was signed into law
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Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
Author of the 1949 book The Second Sex which is often credited with paving the way for modern day feminism
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What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
This is a constitutional amendment originally proposed almost a century ago that would bolster pay equity, domestic violence laws and pregnancy discrimination protections, among others, that is one state short of the 2/3 majority necessary to ratify the amendment
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What is third wave feminism?
A movement started in the 1990s to make looked to make feminism more inclusive, intersectional and to allow women to define what being a feminist means to them personally
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What is 2013?
This was the year the US military removed a ban on women serving in combat positions
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Who is Barbara Walters?
The first female co-host of an American news program
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What is Title X?
This is a federal grant program created in 1970 to provide comprehensive and confidential family planning services and preventive health services specifically to low income families
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What is liberal feminism?
Feminism focused on the idea that women should have the freedom to make their own choices and the subordination of women compared to men is what is in the way of gender equality
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What is Lavender Menace?
This was a group of lesbian radical feminists in the 1970s formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the feminist movement
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