Umbrella term for all persons who have a non- normative gender or sexuality. LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and/or questioning.
LGBTQ+
Refers to increasing the personal, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities. Empowerment of women and girls concerns women and girls gaining power and control over their own lives.
EMPOWERMENT
Having the same rights, treatment, etc: Girls and boys must have equal rights in education.
Equal rights
The act of treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin color, religion, sex…
Discrimination
Feminism
Belief in and desire for equality between the sexes.
Social system in which men hold the greatest power
Patriarchy
Actions based on the belief that the members of one sex are less intelligent, able, skillful, etc. than the members of the other sex, especially that women are less able than men.
Sexism