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

Vietnam and women’s liberation lend the show a sociopolitical texture, and it’s a fraught era that Burnett remembers well.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

It was a group dedicated to fighting sexism, and Steinem - one of three co-founders - became the face of the women's liberation movement in the United States for the rest of the 20th Century.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

Amid the women’s liberation movement, more women were breaking into the workplace.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 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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