AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Women’s Liberation Movement is the social struggle which aims to eliminate forms of oppression based on feminine gender. The Movement aims for a social transformation in which women gain equal economic and social status and rights to determine their own lives as are enjoyed by men.

Detailed explanation-2: -Divorce laws were liberalized; employers were barred from firing pregnant women; and women’s studies programs were created in colleges and universities. Record numbers of women ran for-and started winning-political office.

Detailed explanation-3: -Essay on the Women’s Liberation Movement – Men and women are born equal and they should always be treated so. There should be no sexual discrimination. Treating women as inferior especially to men and considering them individuals of the “second sex”, is not fair.

Detailed explanation-4: -The women’s liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.