WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (WLM) 1

a social movement, taken from formative women's' social activism, which came into presence within the late 1960's and lobbied for a significant array of feminist objectives. These are inclusive of the securing of (i) equal work and academic opportunities via legislation and government mandates; (ii) liberty from male dominance via social action against pornography and male violence directed at women; and (iii) the overthrow of capitalism, thought of as vital to reaching a place of gender equity. 2. more typically, a movement among some females to free their selves from the double-standard that exists with regard to sexual behavior, inclusive of typing women as gentile, pushovers, reliant upon men, and having a purpose of reproducing and rearing children.