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Feminism may well have been in existence for centuries. At its root lies the reaction of women to their own gender and "birthright". This was always a minority activity by those who gave voice to it and most certainly did not represent the aspirations of all women or even a majority. If a starting point could be identified in more recent times then a gathering at Seneca Falls in the USA in the late nineteenth century might identify a beginning. 

Since there was very little that could be achieved by claiming that being women was just nature playing a poor deck of cards therefore another reason had to be found. That reason was Victimhood, in other words if a woman was married for example she was no longer free and she became a victim. In those days society was in an early stage of emergence from its agrarian roots. Industry was beginning to bring a level of wealth to those who left the land and headed for the cities. The process was slow and is perhaps difficult to comprehend when today's industrialized western society is considered. Times were difficult for both men and women as wages tended to be low. The new industrial society provided work in the main for men and the poor level of wages meant that married families had just about enough to survive on. Women would enter the workplace when what might be called the softer industries arrived. The textile industry would be such an example.

As time moved on and the industrialized world slowly expanded following invention and development of inventions jobs for both men and women followed. Feminism its modern form took firmer root after the last war. It is estimated some 2 million women became employed in war production work. They of course replaced the men who were now part of the military.  Whilst women had adapted to this work it was not a field of industrial employment in post war society in which they would have naturally aspired to.

The vast majority of women had been pleased to take part in the necessary war effort to back up and support their menfolk who were now fighting and getting killed and injured at the front line. The taste of wages for some who had worked fuelled the post war feminist movement however the vast majority of women has been pleased to leave the industrial world in which they had worked to support the war effort and return to their own lives. Since women were not seeking a wage based life in the industrial world in particular thus robbed of an income based lure for women to be cajoled into working the embryo feminist movement would have to seek other reasons to fuel their aspirations. Myths will illustrate the next stage which was to be a psychological attack.