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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of women's rights1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

Mary Ward was one of the greatest women-educationists and, in a sense, womens rights advocates England has ever seen.

A propos, M. Dupont, did you go to the lecture the other day on womens rights?

My dear, its quite useless starting the lecture about womens rights all over again.

Women-workers did not long maintain the alliance with the Womens Rights Party.

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