Gender Equality: Overview.

Gender equality (also gender egalitarianism) is generally the promotion of equal rights and equal consideration for all genders. Historically, this has mostly taken the form of promoting women's rights in traditionally male-dominated societies. However, there is a competing movement that claims men's rights are being overlooked, and even retracted, and that the main focus of gender egalitarianism is the promotion of women's rights. Strictly speaking, however, gender egalitarians prefer language that does not prefer either gender, since they tend to feel that equality should not require favoring either gender.