The second wave of the Women's Movement took place from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, which was a time of great change all over the United States of America. That was also when the Civil Rights Movement progressed, with American soldiers being sent overseas to fight in the Vietnam War from 1965-1972. Racial tensions still existed among Americans--particularly in the southern United States. Class structure often defined political divisions between liberal and conservative Americans, with the more conservative wealthy Americans leaning towards the more traditional modus operandi on the family front. Women would not go to college and instead wait to marry rich husbands. Women would then take on the role of being less educated stay-at-home mothers-and-housewives raising children and maintaining a stable household, while their college-educated husbands worked full-time jobs to "bring home the bacon". The Women's Movement wanted to break this cycle and instead create more educational and economic-professional opportunities for young women in particular.
Because these wealthy American families and individuals were of the White majority as opposed to racial minorities, friction occurred between the well-off and impoverished demographics of Americans (with the latter, larger demographic consisting of both the White majority and racial minorities nationwide). Since minority men were unable to get a college education due to lack of wealth of finance, and their own race being a factor in them receiving such academic and professional opportunities to boot, families with parents who were Black or Hispanic in particular struggled indefinitely to survive. Subsequently, minority women who fought for justice in the Women's Movement had an additional layer of disadvantage than their White majority "sisters" of similar sociopolitical and socioeconomic liberation.
In terms of sexual orientation: with homosexuality being considered the deadliest of sins--especially in the eyes of the Bible-thumping rightwing Christian, wealthy White demographic of the country due to the passage in the Bible that claims that (paraphrased) "marriage is a union between a man and a woman", same-sex marriages were therefore considered "unholy" and unlawful by a majority of uninformed, backward thinking Americans at the time of the Women's Movement. Additionally, any individual Americans (whether male or female, gay or lesbian) who knew that they themselves were of homosexual orientation had to keep their sexual orientation an absolute secret from their friends, family members, and other fellow Americans so as not to receive unjust treatment by their heterosexual peers and relatives in both the public and private sectors. "Coming out of the close" was out of the question at the time for homosexuals worldwide. It was not until the Gay Liberation Movement began in 1969, lead by political activists including San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk who was homosexual himself, when American individuals in the sexual orientation minority began to make their voices heard nationwide and thereby slowly but surely earn the same legal rights (owning property, equal wages for equal work in relationship to their heterosexual peers [both male and female], and then in June 2015--the right to marry their same-sex partners). But at the time of the second wave of feminism, lesbian women were considered second-class citizens to their female heterosexual "sidekicks" in the Women's Movement.
I hope this helps.
