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View synonyms for women's liberation

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
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  • women's liberationist women's libber noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of women's liberation1

First recorded in 1965–70

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