Women's Movement

noun

1. a grass-roots movement of women concerned with women's liberation See Women's Liberation

women's movement

1. A movement to secure legal, economic, and social equality for women, also called the feminist movement. It has its roots in the nineteenth-century women's movement, which sought, among other things, to secure property rights and suffrage for women. The modern feminist movement, often said to have been galvanized by the publication of Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique, began in the 1960s and advocates equal pay for equal work, improved day care arrangements, and preservation of abortion (see also abortion) rights. (See Equal Rights Amendment, feminism (see also feminism), and Gloria Steinem.)

Example Sentences

In a documentary, “Unafraid,” Xenarios and Anderson describe their younger selves as “angry, idealistic, progressive,” and they assembled a staff of like-minded women who saw their work as an integral part of the women’s movement.

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“Even though Easy is skeptical about a woman being a detective,” he explains, “he recognizes it’s the 1970s and, with the women’s movement, he’s willing to help her if that’s what she wants.”

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The women's movement has a history of standing up to regimes in Indonesia, playing a crucial role in past waves of protest.

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But with restrictions on women's movement without a male chaperon, many cannot seek help.

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Hurtado primarily worked on the exhibition’s featured pieces while living in Santa Monica Canyon in the 1970s, embroiled in the beginnings of the L.A. women’s movement that shaped her artistic identity.

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