women's liberation
noun
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
1First 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
Words Nearby women's liberation
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British Dictionary definitions for Women's Liberation
Women's Liberation
noun
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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