Source A Women protesting against the Miss World contest in 1970. The presenter, Bob Hope, was pelted with flour bombs and tomatoes and the competition was compared to a cattle market
The emergence of the women’s movement of the late 1960s and 1970s (known as secondwave feminism) was influenced by the student protests of 1968, the US feminist movement, writings such as Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970), the media portrayal of women as sex objects, and frustration at the slow pace of change.
The first National Women’s Liberation Conference met in February 1970. Its four demands were:
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