women's liberation

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noun
  1. a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.

Origin of women's liberation

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First recorded in 1965–70
  • Also called women's liberation movement, women's movement, women's lib .

Other words from women's liberation

  • women's liberationist, women's libber, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for Women's Liberation

Women's Liberation

noun
  1. a movement directed towards the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the assumption that men are superior to women: Also called: women's lib

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