women's rights
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- noun
- /ˈwɪmɪnz raɪts/
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- Few gender differences exist on women's rights issues, with men and women equally supporting governmental policies that promote women's equality.
- support women's rights
- women's rights issues
- women's rights advocates
Examples
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In this context, Qasim Amin (1865-1908) formulated a systematic defense of women's rights from an Islamic standpoint.
Academic text (2002) -
Today, there are many Muslim nations, such as Saudi Arabia, where laws restrict women's rights.
Academic text (2004) -
-People were paying attention to your push for women's rights, was that dangerous still?
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While this theory can be applied to many human rights, my focus is primarily on women's rights.
Academic text (2002) -
We have gained experience and have defended women's rights in this country.
Fiction book (1996) -
Dorothy Kenyon has been fighting for women's rights and civil rights and labor rights her entire career.
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Sustainable democracy will depend on institutions that support education, women's rights, and private-sector development.
Academic text (2004) -
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights -once and for all.
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Widening the gender divide will also have political repercussions in countries where women's rights are repressed.
Academic text (2012) -
Throughout history, many activists have fought for women's rights to achieve equality with men.
Synonyms
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Support for equal rights and chances for women
How Equal
Surface Forms
Morphology
women's + right
The meaning 'legal and social entitlements of women' is directly derivable from the possessive 'women's' (belonging to women) combined with 'rights' (entitlements). This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common possessive + noun composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Women's rights comes from movements where women fought to have the same law and social rights as men, so imagine crowds of women holding signs asking to enter doors marked 'vote', 'work', and 'school' that had been closed to them. That's why today women's rights means the laws and protections that help women be treated 'equal' to men.