feminists
Gender parity champions
Feminists are people who advocate for women's rights and equality between the sexes.
The term covers a wide spectrum—from those seeking equal pay and legal protections to those analyzing how gender shapes society and culture.
She's been a feminist since college.
Some reject the label despite holding feminist views; others wear it proudly.
The word is sometimes used dismissively by critics: Those feminists are ruining everything.
Female voting-rights activists
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
- organizersThose who coordinate activities
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
- demonstratorsPublic protest participants
reformers · advocates · lobbyists · crusaders · pioneers · agitators · petitioners · boycotters
Interconnected identity-based discrimination study
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- womanismBlack female-focused social theory
- ecofeminismTheory linking female oppression, ecological destruction
- hegemonyDominant group's control
praxis · solidarity · sisterhood · allyship · masculinity
Independent decision-making capacity
- agencyPower to act
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
resilience · assertiveness · confidence · enfranchisement · self-worth · strength · representation · visibility
Male-dominated social order
- misogynyHostility toward women
- sexismGender-based prejudice
- objectificationReducing humans to things
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
victim-blaming · consent · childcare · femicide · slut-shaming · mansplaining
Right to cast ballots
- consciousness-raisingIncreasing social or political awareness
- ERAPitcher effectiveness statistic
- bra-burningSymbolic rejection of femininity constraints
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
temperance · bloomers · suffragists · sit-ins · womanism
suffragettes
Female voting-rights activists
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
- organizersThose who coordinate activities
- protestersThose publicly opposing something
demonstrators · reformers · advocates · lobbyists · crusaders · pioneers · agitators · petitioners · boycotters · strikers
intersectionality
Interconnected identity-based discrimination study
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- womanismBlack female-focused social theory
- ecofeminismTheory linking female oppression, ecological destruction
hegemony · praxis · solidarity · sisterhood · allyship · masculinity
autonomy
Independent decision-making capacity
- agencyPower to act
- liberationRelease from constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
independence · resilience · assertiveness · confidence · enfranchisement · self-worth · strength · representation · visibility · voice
patriarchy
Male-dominated social order
- misogynyHostility toward women
- sexismGender-based prejudice
- objectificationReducing humans to things
discrimination · victim-blaming · consent · childcare · femicide · slut-shaming · mansplaining
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- consciousness-raisingIncreasing social or political awareness
- ERAPitcher effectiveness statistic
- bra-burningSymbolic rejection of femininity constraints
ratification · temperance · bloomers · suffragists · sit-ins · womanism
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- Women's Reformsuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, suffragist, suffragette
feministsmisogynists
Those who hate women
sexists · male chauvinists · anti-feminists · incels · chauvinists
feministstraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
social conservatives · reactionaries · conservatives · regressives · paleoconservatives
- radical feministsThose wanting fundamental gender change
- feminist movementCampaign for gender equality
- feminist iconCelebrated advocate for women
- radical feminismMovement targeting patriarchy's foundations
- feminist writingLiterature promoting gender equality
- feminist literatureWorks advocating gender equality
feminism, feminist, antifeminism, antifeminist, postfeminism, postfeminist