Bihongo- Free to fly

The first wave of feminism started off with women seeking voting rights in the western world, a right that should have been given to them when their male counterparts became eligible to vote. It went into the second wave with Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which sparked the fire in women, and provoked them to not just stop at equal voting rights, but also ask for equal opportunities. The third wave of feminism was initiated in the early 1990s and sought to redefine the concepts of gender, sexuality, and femininity. Can you, as a modern woman, existing in the era of a fourth wave feminist movement, imagine living in a society where you were not even allowed to have housing rights without the approval/consent of your spouse? Weird, right? Well, women were not even allowed to have housing rights on their own until 1970 – and we are talking about the so-called most advanced nation in the world, the United States of America.  In 1993, India passed a constitutional amendment calling