sexual equality
Americannoun
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the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Performed by the all-female Czech-Slovene-Russian band Vesna, it's a song about sexual equality and female empowerment, with frontwoman Patricie Fuxová declaring: "We are not your dolls."
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023
Germany is known as being progressive on sexual equality, partly because of Berlin's century-old reputation as a haven for sexual experimentation, but it came late to marriage equality, only allowing same-sex marriages in 2017.
From Reuters • Jan. 14, 2022
While the battle for sexual equality is obviously far from over, second-wave feminism did achieve many important goals.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
A minute or two later, she acknowledged, “We can’t really develop further in terms of sexual equality or whatever until men have adapted to our changes.”
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2017
And, as might have been foreseen, results harmonized perfectly with those arrived at by investigators in other parts of the world—namely, that in things of the mind there is perfect sexual equality.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
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