women's liberation

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.

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 calledwomen's lib

Other Words From

• women's liberationist women's libber noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of women's liberation¹

First recorded in 1965–70