There are many contemporary issues that benefit from being investigated further, mediatisation (Hardt&Negris, 202) cross-cultural influences (Hermans&Hubert, 2006), and including one of the biggest inequalities, gender. Gender can be explored through feminist theory, readdressing gaps in equality through social psychology.
Women have been successful towards advancing some gender inequalities within political movements, though not without great difficulty, even paying for it with their lives within the first wave feminism of the suffragettes movement in the nineteenth-twentieth century, where women gained the right to vote (Pankhurst, 205). In an ever-evolving world, women still struggle to be heard and accepted as equals though contemporary social psychology gives a voice to those fighting for social change by challenging the norm, We can think of feminist theory as being produced precisely where social norms about gender are contested (Radtke, 205). Third-wave feminism emerged out of a critique of the politics of the second wave, as many feminists felt that earlier generations had over-generalized the experiences of white, middle-class, heterosexual women and
ignored (and even suppressed) the viewpoints of women of colour, the poor, gay, lesbian, and transgender people, and women from the non-Western world.(Routledge, 206). Due to technological advances in a globalised society, it is easier for contemporary social psychologists to keep up to date and informed, challenging out-dated models and thinking through the contemporary development of increased use in the likes of social media, where we can make social inequalities heard more than ever before on a global platform. Change may be progressing at a slower pace than desired, and there is still much work to be done regarding inequalities in gender and socially that feminism would like to transform, readdressing power issues on an everyday level, and politically securing equal rights. Ultimately, if feminism, broadly understood, is concerned with improving the conditions of women in society, feminist social theory is about developing ideas, concepts, philosophies, and other intellectual programs that help meet that agenda. Feminist social theory, like any theoretical tradition, is best seen as a continuing conversation of many voices and viewpoints.(Routledge, 206).