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GirlbossThe term “girlboss” has taken on a variety of meanings since it was first introduced in 2014. Entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term that year when she published her memoir, titling it “#Girlboss.” At the time, the word girlboss was used to describe a career woman who, as Amoruso wrote in her memoir, is “in charge of her own life … gets what she wants because she works for it … always on her own terms.” After the memoir’s publication and 18 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list, the term came to colloquially represent a woman—typically white and relatively young—who attempted to use hustle-culture tactics to get ahead in the workforce, becoming just as successful as her male counterparts. The girlboss movement changed the way many women saw themselves at work. The term’s meaning has undergone a stark evolution over the past decade. Today, girlboss is used as an ironic insult or joke rather than a compliment.Explore Girlboss

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The woman who coined the term ‘girlboss’ now has a VC firm called Trust FundIn 2006, Amoruso founded the clothing company Nasty Gal, then later wrote a memoir called “#Girlboss” about her company’s meteoric rise. Later, she launched other ventures, including her “Business Class” business coaching series and the venture capital fund “Trust Fund.” Masters of Scale The Recount explains why girlbosses get accused of being 'white feminists'In a video, a podcaster interviews an expert on the girlboss movement and a separate expert on “white feminism” in an attempt to understand how these two ideas intersect and overlap. It also includes a definition of white feminism and an explanation of how it differs from other types of feminist thought. The Recount The Girlboss TV show is generally regarded as a failureSophia Amoruso’s memoir, “#Girlboss,” spawned more than just a cultural movement—it also inspired an ill-fated television show that is remembered as one of Netflix’s first major failures. Inverse Sophia Amoruso reflected on the girlboss movement 10 years later It has been more than a decade since 2014, the year Sophia Amoruso published her book "#Girlboss," which became a New York Times bestseller. Since then, Amoruso has more or less journeyed through the seven circles of the corporate underworld, and the "girlboss" has been declared dead. This podcast episode lets listeners hear her thoughts on the legacy of the girlboss phenomenon 10 years after she started it. The Cut The Black Lives Matter movement coincided with the fall of the girlbossIt’s no coincidence that the white women who were seen as the faces of the girlboss movement (founders such as Audrey Gelman of The Wing and Christene Barberich of Refinery29, for instance) stepped away from their companies around the same time that America stepped into its era of racial reckoning with Black Lives Matter. ELLE Many of the 2010s girlboss-era founders experienced a public fall from grace in 2020In the 2010s, dozens of female founders were celebrated on the covers of business magazines like Inc. for their recent startup success, from Emily Weiss’s Glossier makeup brand to Steph Korey’s Away luggage company. But many of these companies were also the subject of large takedown articles around the year 2020. Vanity Fair Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' book championed similar philosophies as the '#Girlboss' bookSheryl Sandberg left her top executive position at Facebook around the same time that other girlboss-era founders stepped down from their companies or faced backlash about how they treated their employees. An article explores the part Sandberg played in the girlboss movement, and why her Facebook exit was significant. CNN The values espoused in 'Lean In,' a book by a female Facebook exec, was part of the girlboss movement's doctrineSheryl Sandberg, a top executive at Facebook, published "Lean In," her career-advice book for women, in 2013. The book would go on to spend more than a year on The New York Times Best Sellers list and contribute to a cultural movement. The New York Times Girlboss founder Sophia Amoruso doesn’t use the word 'girlboss' anymoreAn article dives into not only the origin of the term “girlboss,” but also the quotes from the woman who coined the term about her thoughts on the word and the movement around it. In the piece, she explains that she doesn’t identify with or claim the word "girlboss." ELLE The word ‘girlboss’ went from a compliment to an insult in a matter of yearsWhat’s the difference between a girlboss and a career woman? The simplest answer, perhaps, is time. Once it was the term "career woman" that translated female ambition as selfish, immoral, and slightly ridiculous; now, "girlboss" does the job. The Guardian Sophia Amoruso coined the term 'girlboss' with her bestselling memoirSophia Amoruso turned a small eBay shop into Nasty Gal, a $250M fashion empire. Her success sparked the #Girlboss movement after her bestselling memoir, but behind the rise was a rapid fall. Leadership struggles and financial missteps led to bankruptcy in 2016. 1440 A post-game interview with Sophia Amoruso directly after her 2016 Forbes coverThis article from 2016 is a time capsule of sorts. It includes an interview with the person who coined the term “girlboss,” Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, that took place just after she appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine. We now know that her company would go on to file for bankruptcy the next year. WWD

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