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

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

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

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

According to psychologist Brad Klontz, a pioneer in the field of financial therapy, most of us operate according to one of four key ‘money scripts’: money avoidance,

‘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

say is lacking in substance and scope,

environment where women are treated far inferior than men’. In total Steel interviewed more than 100 current and former Vice employees,

Out of this cultural moment came the Girlboss, the result of start-up culture being refracted through the prism of fourth-wave feminism that was at the time also gathering pace. The term ‘girlboss’ itself was first propelled into public consciousness by American entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, founder and former CEO of fast fashion brand Nasty Gal,