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  2. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...

  3. Feminism - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the question of how women musicians fit into traditional music history was now being asked. Through the 1980s and 1990s, this trend continued as musicologists like Susan McClary, Marcia Citron and Ruth Solie began to consider the cultural reasons for the marginalizing of women from the received body of work. Concepts such as ...

  4. Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.

  5. Girl power - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, confidence and strength. The slogan's invention is credited to the US punk band Bikini Kill, who published a zine called Bikini Kill #2: Girl Power [1] in 1991. [2] It was then popularized in the mainstream by the British girl group Spice Girls in ...

  6. Women and the environment - Wikipedia

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    Women give greater priority to protection of and improving the capacity of nature, maintaining farming lands, and caring for nature and environment's future. [65] Repeated studies have shown that women have a stake in environment, and this stake is reflected in the degree to which they care about natural resources.

  7. Mary J. Blige enlists Taraji P. Henson, Marsai Martin and ...

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    Mary J. Blige is bringing her mission to empower women beyond her music to her hometown — with the help of the singer’s superstar friends. Taraji P. Henson, Tiffany Haddish and Jill Scott and ...

  8. International Women's Day - Wikipedia

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    Empower Rural Women, End Poverty, and Hunger 2013 A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women 2014 Equality for Women is Progress for All 2015 Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it! 2016 Planet 50–50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality 2017 Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030 2018

  9. List of women's organizations - Wikipedia

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    Quota International – empowering women, children, deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech impaired (founded 1919) Relief Society – Worldwide charitable and educational organization of women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (founded 1842) St. Joan's International Alliance – Feminist Catholic organization founded in 1911