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

The Women’s Liberation Front, which brought the lawsuit, announced this month that a federal court had dismissed the case but that they planned to appeal.

From Los Angeles Times

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

She reminisces on a childhood growing up in a repressive household during the 1960s, when second-wave feminism and the women’s liberation movement were just starting to achieve legitimacy.

From Salon

“You can make the case that the same girls who were flocking to these stadiums, 10 years later were marching in the streets for women’s liberation,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal

Whitehead said that Crump, as was common with women who broke in to racing in the 1960s, wanted to create opportunities for other women, but she didn’t think of herself as a champion of women’s liberation.

From The Wall Street Journal