women's liberation

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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.
Also called women's liberation movement, women's movement, women's lib.

Origin of women's liberation

First recorded in 1965–70

OTHER WORDS FROM women's liberation

women's liberationist, women's libber, noun

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Words related to women's liberation

feminism, sisterhood, womanism

British Dictionary definitions for 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 Also called: women's lib