Females frantically finding all of society 's faults and flaws to further fuel the fire of their burning desire for superiority - that is what the current misconception of feminism is, and the reality could not be further from the truth. According to the Oxford Dictionary, feminism is "the advocacy of women 's rights on the grounds of the equality of the sexes." The word feminism used to bring about feelings of power and strength, as well as signifying the struggle that feminists have been through ever since the 1800s. Now, just the sound of it is enough to send shivers down the spine of anyone who is opposed to the cause, as if the word itself is a deadly infection. Frankly, I find it impossible to understand why people - women especially - wouldn 't believe in and support this movement that still has so far to go and so much to achieve because, as Maya Angelou said; "I 've been a female for a long time now. It 'd be stupid not to be on my own side."

‘Women are already equal. They have all the same opportunities that men have so what else could they possibly need?’ It is true that women have come a long way in society since the outbreak of the feminist movement in the 1800s by the suffragists and suffragettes, but we are still nowhere near gender equality. There is nowhere that this is more apparent than in the workplace. In theory, women are given the same opportunities to get jobs and succeed in them, but it isn 't quite that easy. First off, there is the danger that if