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

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, wh

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]

money status, where you equate your self-worth with your net worth; and money vigilance, where you’re generally pretty careful with money, to the point of developing a nervousness around making sure you have enough saved in case of emergency.

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

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

where you believe that money is inherently bad and that people who are concerned with it are simply greedy; money worship, where you convince yourself that having more money would solve all of your problems;

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

financial success can be romantic napalm, no matter how woke the object of their affection purports to be.