empowerment

The gaining of political, social, or financial power by a person or group.

• Education supports women's economic empowerment.
• Voting rights were a major step toward political empowerment.
• The report links community empowerment to access to land.

Opposites: disempowerment

Common phrases: economic empowerment, political empowerment

Helping people find the confidence and ability to take control of their own lives.

• The course focuses on personal empowerment.
• Her approach to counselling encourages empowerment through small choices.
• We offer workshops on confidence and empowerment.

Common phrases: personal empowerment, empowerment through education

The state of having the power, confidence, or authority to act and make decisions.

• She felt a new sense of empowerment.
• Having her own income brought a feeling of empowerment.
• Their empowerment allowed them to make decisions without asking permission.

Opposites: powerlessness

Common phrases: sense of empowerment, feeling of empowerment

Government programmes that help Black people gain better jobs, business opportunities, and economic power.

• The government introduced new empowerment rules.
• Black empowerment programmes aim to widen business ownership.
• The company must meet the policy's empowerment targets.

Common phrases: black empowerment, empowerment policy