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

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

Despite their dark origins of being tested in low-income Puerto Rican women, birth control pills have been credited as being key players in the women’s liberation movement because they helped women take their fertility into their own hands.

From Salon

Introduced to the public in 1974, the design became synonymous with women’s liberation and launched a young Von Furstenberg’s career.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The urgency women now feel about regaining their lost freedom echoes the grassroots uprising of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times