Hello as someone who was part of 70s Women's Liberation many of the comment on here about 70s feminist are just wrong.
There was a strand of feminism at that time that was Marxist Feminist but because in fact its analysis of women gaining power was about economic equality it (strange as it may see) morphed into corpoate feminism - and the stranglehold on socialist feminism.
But the main wave of women's activism that made up the Women's Liberation Movement was recognising that men as individuals and as a class structure, partiarchy were the root of the problem. That is why the issue of women as a sex class oppressed by men as the dominant sex was the basis on which women organised. (And why Marxist feminist went out of their way to deride this analysis as it directly challenge their political model of the traditional class structure.)
But with a nod towards socialist feminists it was in fact many women in trade unions (and even the Labour Party) who organised and campaigned on equality issues. Not forgetting the Sex discrimination act. And of course abortion
The method of organising was grassroots local consciousness raising groups, which was copied from the US Black Liberation Movement. ie in sharing experiences of discrimination you can identity what is common, and then take that to build a campaign or direct action.
It was from this that rape crisis centres and women's refuges were created. ie a shared experience of male violence that women could offer support and help based on a personal understanding of that act of violence.
Within in that shared understanding of sex class discrimination there were of course not unanimous idea of how to move on from that.
But absolutely it was about women having the opportunity to come together and realise what they thought was their individual problem was in fact a common shared experience. In fact many women left their husbands and subsequently lost custody of their children because at that time courts would view it as a woman not behaving rationally and therefore not competent to be the main parent. And in some countries like France women were sectioned for daring to reject the traditional role, particularly if this meant they had recognised they were lesbian.
All of the work done on male violence against women grew out of 70s Women's Liberation, and all of that was based on the agreed analysis that it was the fact of a woman's sex that she suffered discrimination and violence.
I can not believe that everyone is not aware of this.
What happened after that is not being able to find a way to build of what had been achieved ie rape crisis, women's aid. And the opportunity of funding seemed the way forward. But the motive behind funding, as trialed by Ken Livinsgstone and socialist feminists at the GLC was a way of becoming the "owners"of the product of women's liberation, eg rape crisis centres and refuges. (And we all know were that ended up).
And at the same time Queer Polics (please note this in not the same as the label as used by Stonewall etc.) was taking hold in Universities. This coincided with the backlash against women's liberation so that Women's Studies became gender studies and so on.
So even if you remember nothing else about 70s feminism, it was called Women's Liberation for a good reason.
It was about liberating women from men and male structures, not an equality campaign asking women to aspire to be like men.