girl power
noun [mass noun]
Used in reference to an attitude of independence, confidence, and empowerment among young women: she still writes all the songs, plays most of the instruments, and produces the album (talk about girl power!) the press was filled with articles on ‘girl power’...
- Now she's the title character in the musical featuring the tunes made famous by the group who switched on girl power.
- Delivered onto the stage via a giant spinning pyramid, Katy belted out girl power anthem Roar to begin the show with a bang.
- He admitted that his biggest faux pas in the music business was turning down the beacons of girl power themselves.
Origin
Early 20th century (in the rare sense 'the number of girls available to perform a task'). The term was first recorded in its current sense in 1967 and was used by the riot girl movement in the early 1990s, but is particularly associated with the all-female pop group the Spice Girls, who released their first single in 1996.