How did women achieve gender equality?

Women all over the world tried to achieve gender equality through radical movements and Political Empowerment.
(i) Women in different parts of the world organised themselves into radical movements and agitated : for equal treatment and equal rights.
(ii) Their main demands were the extension of voting rights to women and equal status in private and public life.
(iii) The radical movement also demanded enhancement of the political and legal status of women through political empowerment.