websites, clubs, media platforms and conferences sprang up, most of which tended to focus on younger, self-employed women and members of the creative class. Two years

Alison Wolf argues (most notably in her 2013 book The XX Factor), ‘there are large numbers of women who are doing very, very poorly paid jobs, which make the lives of better paid women possible’.[5] Though Lean In encouraged women to smash the glass ceiling, it made little provision for the women on the ground floor who would have to walk over the

Is there any more damning evidence of male fragility than the fact that men with female partners who out-earn them are more likely to cheat, as sociologist Christin Munsch discovered in 2014?[5]

in personal branding, cementing Amoruso’s image as the spunky outsider of the otherwise stuffy business world. She was relatable, and more unusually she was also cool, sporting

Sandberg and those who followed in her wake became poster girls for a certain type of contemporary feminism, one that critics

At present the #girlboss hashtag has been used over 22 million times

Combine the generational plight of millennials with the gender-specific concerns most women face at work, and the emergency parachute for those caught in the middle of that particular Venn diagram starts to look a lot like a blush-pink bullet journal with the word HUSTLE stamped across it in gold foil. Indeed, the UK’s self-employment

‘light skin privilege’. In the UK, the lack of visibility of dark-skinned Black women – even within urban music genres such as grime and R&B – is endemic, with the spotlight largely falling on biracial or light-skinned Black women with ‘good hair’ and enough Blackness to make them credible as urban artists without offending or alienating the white

and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of