women’s lib

women’s lib
(in full women’s liberation) n [U] (becoming old-fash)
the name that most people used to refer to feminism in the 1960s. At that time, many women in Britain and America began to demand the same rights and opportunities as men. They were sometimes called women’s libbers.

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