Emancipation

Act of a person or group by which they free themselves from any form of subjugation or oppression in order to attain the economic, social, political, cultural or equal rights that have been denied to them. Women’s liberation or emancipation refers to the historical process or social movement that has been demanding women’s rights and gender equality since the late eighteenth century in Europe and the United States to liberate or emancipate the female condition, which throughout history has been one of subordination to men.