women's rights

Or woman's rights

plural noun

1. the rights claimed for women, equal to those of men, with respect to suffrage, property, the professional fields, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of women's rights¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

His anti-abortion supporters, and even his anti-IVF supporters, seem happy to let him have a win on this—as long as he allows abortion bans, which radically constrain women’s rights and lives, to proceed apace.

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Shadow women and equalities minister Mims Davies has accused Phillipson of putting "her own career opportunities ahead of women's rights".

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The minister's response to follow-up questions on women's rights in Afghanistan may not have been satisfactory.

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What had been a women’s production in the service of women’s rights turned into a way of promoting the interests of wealthy businessmen.

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Badinter joined other national heroes, including author Victor Hugo, French-American member of the French Resistance Josephine Baker and Simone Veil, the women's rights heavyweight and health minister who championed legalising abortion.

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