Therefore Liberal feminists set out to achieve equal rights for women through welfare needs, universal education and health services. This applies less and less today as the equality of education is firmly in place as well health services being open to all regardless of sex and there is no sexual discrimination within the health service. .
Their campaign to achieve equal rights has been successful in the past however. In 1975 the legal pay act meant that for the first time women in equivalent jobs as men would have to be paid the same amount. This was not quite as perfect as liberal feminists and was not solely passed because of their campaigning. They were not as hopeful and content as they would have wished however. This was because in 1974 women earned 67.4% of what meant earned and in 1976 earned 75.1%. Therefore, there was not a huge increase and as Michelle Barrett explains; "This relative rise in women's pay has, however, not been maintained and appears to be to some extent a temporary effect of the legislation." .
Another factor to the ideology of liberal feminism is the agreement with the public and private dichotomy. This being the realisation of home life and the public life exploiting women. Liberal feminists believe that the home domestic work is to heavily required to be completed by women, and that they are almost prisoners in their own homes not being able to escape the working life. .
To sum up, Liberal feminism argues for individual fulfilment free from the strictures of highly defined sex roles. Their ideals and policies are certainly one of the most realistic brands of feminism and of a structured nature. This makes liberal feminism part of the mainstream of feminist political and social theory.
Another important type of feminism is socialist feminism. Socialist feminism draws upon socialist views and these views are often very political. Similarly to Marxist capitalism, social feminists have a dislike of the capitalist regime.