[1][2] A third wave in the 2000s and 2010s was more intersectional, accepting both the LGBT community and the wearing of the hijab, and extensively using online social networks.
[2] YY was overtly feminist, calling for "resistance and struggle" against patriarchal norms and institutions in both private and public life.
Gueye and Ba see YY as having successfully created "national and international momentum" in improving women's status.
Specific issues of the second wave included continued actions to oppose female genital mutilation and child marriages.
Gueye and Ba view the third wave as achieving feminist aims through compromise with the patriarchal status quo as a practical strategy rather than through provocation.
She viewed the younger generation as failing to maintain the gains of YY, and said that accepting the wearing of the hijab was not part of Senegalese culture.