Women's movement

The women's movement (aka the "women's liberation movement" or "women's lib") is a feminist movement that emerged as a response to systematic and institutionalized sexism and gender oppression.

The name "women's movement" can refer to

• the specific feminist movement in the US in the 1960s and 1970s (sometimes called Second Wave);
• to the broader modern women's movement internationally, counting from the mid-1960s onward;
• to the "modern" women's movement beginning in the 19th century (often described as First Wave); or
• to anti-sexism activism at any time or place (However, to the extent that a "movement" is a discrete, time- and place-limited thing (albeit with fuzzy historical edges), the latter definition is probably better described as simply "feminist" or "women's rights activism" than a specific movement.)

See feminism.