“Girlboss” is often used as a term of empowerment. It's meant to refer to a new generation of confident, take-charge women who pursue their own ambitions—and who aren’t beholden to anyone else. But on screen, the Girlboss is often portrayed as somewhere between satire and villainy. How did we come to love to hate this 21st-century spin on the working woman? Here’s our Take on the onscreen evolution of this archetype, how she grew out of the female boss characters who came before, and why the Girlboss is fundamentally at odds with true feminism.
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