Girlboss
"Girlboss" in a Sentence (6 examples)
The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.
The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.
But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.
Girlbossing provided a tenuous bridge in the mid-2010s: on one end, the reality of social upheaval and stagnant wage growth that met young people in the job market after the Great Recession; on the other, the long-gone world of predictable corporate success that these women had been promised by the professional progress of their mothers.
Did Taylor Swift "girl boss" too close to the sun? Some fans are now debating the ethics of making and having that much money.
Did you girlboss too close to the sun? / Did they catch you having far too much fun?
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