girlboss
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girlboss (plural girlbosses)
- (neologism) A female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world; (by extension) any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman.
- 2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41:
- The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.
- 2021, Leigh Stein, quoted in Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, unnumbered page:
- The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.
- 2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98:
- But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:girlboss.
- 2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41:
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Verb edit
girlboss (third-person singular simple present girlbosses, present participle girlbossing, simple past and past participle girlbossed)
- (intransitive) To behave or act as a girlboss.
- 2020 June 25, Amanda Mull, “The Girlboss Has Left the Building”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- 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.