Women’s movements are the movements that advocate for social, political, and cultural rights for women while also talking about empowerment and equality. The women’s movements that specifically focus on achieving gender equality and dismantling patriarchal ideologies are known as feminist movements. This paper gives a detailed account of gender and gender based
discrimination along with an explanation of the major four waves of feminism and the key demarcations which differentiate all the waves from one another. This is a review based paper and the content analysis method has been used for this purpose secondary sources like books, journal articles, and newspaper reports have been used. The paper represents an analysis of the
four waves of feminism in a nutshell, the first wave talked about the political rights of women while the second wave had a broader area of coverage with the slogan “personal is political”, the third wave which corrected the mistakes made by second wave feminist and worked on being inter sectional, the fourth wave integrated the ideas of the previous waves and amplified
them with the help of internet while also introducing concept of body positivity. The paper concludes that feminism as movement will continue as long as women are denied their right to a dignified life with equality with equality in all walks of life.