girlboss

Etymology

From girl + boss, popularised by American businesswoman Sophia Amoruso in her 2014 book #Girlboss.

noun

  1. A female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world.“The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.”
  2. Any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman.“But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.”

verb

  1. To behave or act as a girlboss.“The reality of girlbossing, however, was always a little bit messier. […] 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 t”