女孩力量，源自日本汉字的女力，原来的意思指一般女性的动力。

后来英国女子演唱组合辣妹合唱团崛起，当中的成员Melanie C在自己的身上刺青上“女力”，并为这个词语带入“女性的正面形象”这个新意思。

The phrase "girl power" is used as a term of female empowerment, independence, and self-sureness. Girl power expressed a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s. It is also linked to third-wave feminism. The term was made popular by the Spice Girls in the mid-to-late 1990s.