Noun: "(neologism) a female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world; by extension, any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman"
2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41:
The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.
2020, Catherine Auman, Guide to Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True, unnumbered page:
Her life and leadership are inspiring, and she is called a Native Joan of Arc, a resistance fighter, a spiritual queen, a baddass, a girlboss.
2021, Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity, page xv:
I am a girlboss. I am diverse and I am included. I am an antiracist, radically honest, culturally relevant, intersectional womanist dyke.
2021, Leigh Stein, quoted in Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, unnumbered page:
The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.
2021, Michelle Quach, Not Here To Be Liked, unnumbered page:
Because everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.
2021, Cate Sevilla, How to Work Without Losing Your Mind, unnumbered page:
It's the trope of starving artists, our glorification of the young, slightly mad, work-obsessed entrepreneurs. The girlbosses hustling on Instagram.
2021, "Duchess Wibberfluffle", Flawless, My Dear: How to Be More Bridgerton (An Unofficial Advisory), unnumbered page:
[…] how to be a girlboss in what may seem like a man's world; […]
2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98:
But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.
2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
It isn’t as though contemporary culture has abandoned reductive stereotypes. Think of the girlboss, the femmepreneur, “that girl.”
