women\'s lib

women's liberation

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:
1965–70

women's liberationist, women's libber, noun
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women's lib

noun
the movement aimed at equal rights for women [syn: feminist movement
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