Women's Rights Definitions

1. The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral

patterns.

2.legal, political, and social rights for women that are equal to those of men

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

4.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.