female empowerment
Lifting up women
Female empowerment is the process of increasing women's autonomy, influence, and control over their own lives—economically, politically, socially, or personally.
The term appears frequently in discussions of gender equality, development policy, and workplace advancement: The program focuses on female empowerment through microloans and education.
Critics sometimes find the phrase overused in corporate or marketing contexts where substantive change is absent.
- sisterhoodBond among women
- girl powerCelebration of feminine strength
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- bodily autonomyControl over one's physique
women supporting women · intersectionality · me too · economic independence · equal pay · microfinance · political activism · liberation · wage equality · reproductive rights · Title IX · financial literacy · self-confidence · unsilenced · suffrage · representation · seat at the table · policymaking
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, gender equality, women's rights, feminist novels
- gender equalitygender equality, gender equity, equal rights, equal pay, gender parity
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
- women's poetrywomen poets, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, poetesses
- urban women's issuesworking mothers, urban safety, women's health, street harassment, career women
female empowermentmale dominance
Men's systemic societal control
patriarchy · misogyny · male supremacy · sexism · male chauvinism
female empowermentantifeminism
Opposition to gender equality
anti-feminism · male chauvinism · coverture · traditionalism · sexism