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

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of women's liberation¹

First recorded in 1965–70