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• women's liberation
  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.
• 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

women's liberation

American  

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.

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Women's Liberation British  

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

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Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of women's liberation

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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women's liberation Women's Liberation

By the 1960s, the women's liberation movement began challenging many of those norms.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

There are metrics we can use to gauge women's liberation, from the closing of the gender pay gap to increased levels of female education to later marriage and motherhood ages.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

At one point, soft-spoken Marie-Josephine follows the two pals to a clandestine political conclave where she delivers an impromptu speech in favor of women’s liberation.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

When the Source Family formed, the social and political climate in the United States was volatile, with an unpopular war in Vietnam, the women’s liberation movement, violence against Black citizens and assassinations of progressive leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023

I was no advocate of women's liberation; I simply found interest in many activities and subjects.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson

In a statement posted on X Thursday, Elspeth Cypher, Women’s Liberation Front board president, called the new Justice Department investigations “a welcome advance.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

In the days immediately following the riots, gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals organized the Gay Liberation Front to work alongside the Black Panthers, the Puerto Rican Young Lords, Women’s Liberation Movement, and student anti-war movements.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2025

But what many people don't know is that this phrase originated with a movement called Kurdistan Women's Liberation in Turkey in 2006.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022

In April, the Women’s Liberation Front reported that 27 male-born inmates were being housed at Edna Mahan with no requirement for gender-reassignment surgery along with about 800 female prisoners.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

Paradoxically, activists in the Women's Liberation movement are seriously considering the return to polygamy, as an alternative to the increasing number of deadbeat dads and the misery of abandoned wives and children.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin