women's rights

or woman's rights

plural noun

the rights claimed for women, equal to those of men, with respect to suffrage, property, the professional fields, etc.

First recorded in 1830–40

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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