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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

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

Two years later, activists entered the Royal Albert Hall in the UK and threw flour and rotten vegetables at the Miss World stage in support of women's liberation.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 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

Still, she continued to champion women’s liberation, and it was often difficult to tell when she was expressing her genuine beliefs or simply trying to provoke and entertain.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

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

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