The Ellen Show: The Third Wave Of Feminism

Situational comedies became a popular television style when the average American’s day switched from being outside in the field all day to having a stay at home mom and a working full time father. As everyday switched from dusk until dawn to a more sedentary affair, people were looking for way to fill the empty space in their days; sitcoms did just that. At some point, the focus of sitcoms became focused around the ordinary days. As women in the work place became more common place, Samantha Jones in Sex and the City starts appearing. As homosexuals start gaining freedoms, shows like The Ellen Show start popping. Thus, it is easy to understand why a show like Fuller House started as society is switching from third-wave feminism to post feminism.

The first moves in feminism came with the 19th amendment to the constitution on August 18, 1920. The amendment granted the women the right to vote, which they had been fighting for since the 1800’s. The second wave of feminism came following the house wife phase of history. The 1960’s through the 1980’s women were petitioning to have equal rights in more ways than the legal rights they were granted with suffrage. They wanted equality regardless of sexuality, family, workplace, reproductive rights. They wanted to have many of the freedoms white men already had. Many of these rights were granted in the 1980’s. However, there was the stipulation that these tended to pertain solely to white females. The third wave of feminism came with the reality that many people were neglected in the progressive moves that had been made. The third wave is the one society is currently in consists of reaching out to include men and women and transgendered alike of color to have all of the equalities the white women have already achieved. Finally, post feminism is a term with many ambiguities used to describe the state of society when the work of feminism has been completed and the world is a place of

She is a widowed mother of three trying to make ends meet in her position as a veterinarian. They also decided to make Gibbler a full-time entrepreneur instead of being a lovely house mother for her daughter with her husband Fernando.
More and more women today are deciding it is best to pursue their dreams as well despite the tradition of women wanting to settle down and start a family. However, one main struggle with has historically been that women don’t receive the same benefits that their male counterparts have received.
This one aspect of feminism, working women, has been able to change one thing in particular, the population. “The reduction in the number of children per woman reduces the pull to stay home. Once a woman is out at paid work, the financial sacrifices involved in having another baby becomes obvious, and a deterrent to having it.” (Bergmann, 1986, p. 25) While both of these women are working towards their careers, they each have a lower than historically average number of women for their age: Tanner-Fuller 3 and Gibbler 1. At the beginning of the twentieth century, women were having on average around 3 and a half children and not is just under two children, according to one chart in the World Populations Data Sheets 2012 article on