Feminism as a social movement doesn&#x27;t have &quot;equal rights for women&quot; as the goal of individual members. The goal is closer to something like &quot;gain social status and prestige by fighting for the rights of women&quot;.<p>In other words, achieving a particular state of the world isn&#x27;t the central point: rather, it&#x27;s a particular process of improving things for women. Consolidating things and entrenching a particular position doesn&#x27;t visibly improve things for women, so there&#x27;s no signalling benefit for doing it, so of course later prominent feminists don&#x27;t do that. (Alternative explanation - consolidating the gains of feminism doesn&#x27;t make any particular feminist prominent, so those who focus on that get marginalized from the movement).