women's liberation

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.

Women's Liberation

noun

1. a movement directed towards the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the assumption that men are superior to women Also calledwomen's lib

Other Words From

• women's liberationist women's libber noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of women's liberation¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Introduced to the public in 1974, the design became synonymous with women’s liberation and launched a young Von Furstenberg’s career.

From Los Angeles Times

There are metrics we can use to gauge women's liberation, from the closing of the gender pay gap to increased levels of female education to later marriage and motherhood ages.

From Salon

The urgency women now feel about regaining their lost freedom echoes the grassroots uprising of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times

With a woman seeking the presidency of the United States, women occupying gubernatorial and mayoral seats across the country, from New York to Arizona, and from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, and with women rising in all of the professions, we are living in the world that Donahue predicted, and we are accruing the benefits of the women’s liberation movement.

From Salon

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