women's lib.

...However, while the largest organization, the National Council of Regional Women's Organizations (Chifuren), still exists without being able to completely shake off the wartime nature of women's organizations' collusion with the government, from the 1960s onwards, the women's movement began to be increasingly affiliated with political parties, with the Japan Women's Conference affiliated with the Socialist Party, the New Japan Women's Association affiliated with the Communist Party, the Democratic Women's Association affiliated with the Democratic Socialist Party, and the Housewives' Alliance affiliated with the Komeito Party being formed, and political parties also began to cast a shadow over the Central Meeting of Working Women (held annually since 1956 for the purpose of interaction and learning among female workers, led by the Sohyo Association of Workers' Union and the Japan Federation of Women's Organizations).
[After Women's Liberation Movement]
In the late 1960s, the women's liberation movement began in the United States and quickly spread around the world. Inspired by sexism in the black movement and student movement, a new women's movement was born because women who returned home during the stable period after World War II were not satisfied with their lives, and because, despite the increase in the number of women receiving higher education, they were not given the opportunity to utilize their abilities.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "women's lib." is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし，最大の組織である〈全国地域婦人団体連絡協議会〉(地婦連)が，戦時中の女性団体の行政癒着的性格を払拭しきれないで存在する一方で，1960年代から女性運動に対する政党による系列化が進み，社会党系の〈日本婦人会議〉，共産党系の〈新日本婦人の会〉，民社党系の〈民主婦人の会〉，公明党系の〈主婦同盟〉が結成され，〈働く婦人の中央集会〉(総評，日本婦人団体連合会などが中心となり，女性労働者の交流と学習のために1956年以降毎年開催)にも政党が影を落とすようになった。
［ウーマン･リブ以降］
　1960年代後半に，アメリカ合衆国でウーマン･リブwomen’s lib.(women’s liberation)の運動が発生し，急速に世界各地に波及した。第2次大戦後の安定期に家庭に帰った女性が，その生活に満足できなかったこと，また高等教育を受ける女性が増大したにもかかわらず，彼女たちには能力を生かす機会が与えられなかったことなどが，黒人運動や学生運動における性差別に触発されて，新しい女性運動を生みだしたのである。…

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