women's empowerment
Gender equality movement
Women's empowerment is the process of increasing women's autonomy, agency, and influence—in personal life, economic participation, and political representation.
The term became prominent in development and feminist discourse during the late twentieth century.
It encompasses access to education, economic resources, and decision-making power: The organization focuses on women's empowerment through microloans.
Critics sometimes dismiss it as corporate or bureaucratic jargon that substitutes rhetoric for structural change.
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- workplace diversityVaried employee demographics
- reproductive rightsBodily autonomy in family planning
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- financial literacyComprehension of monetary matters
representation · lean in · suffrage · pay transparency · grassroots movements · feminism · feminist literature · bodily autonomy · microfinance · social justice · self-determination · glass ceiling · breaking barriers · seat at the table · maternal health · community leadership · safe spaces · wage equity
- women's historyherstory, suffrage movement, heroines, suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, gender equality, feminist novels, feminist themes
- girls' educationgirls' schools, girls' education, finishing school, finishing schools, convent school
- microfinancemicrocredit, small loans, microloan, microloans, group lending
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- humanitarian workPeace Corps, Doctors Without Borders, relief efforts, Habitat for Humanity, volunteers
women's empowermentpatriarchy
Male-dominated social order
male dominance · male supremacy · misogyny · sexism · male chauvinism
women's empowermentantifeminism
Opposition to gender equality
anti-feminism · coverture · learned helplessness · complementarianism · purity culture