Feminist Visionaries

You Are Not A Girl Boss


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Words are powerful; they send a message about how we want to be perceived. When we describe ourselves as girl bosses, lady bosses, fempreneurs, mompreneurs, SHEEO and other such gendered leadership titles, it sends a rather negative message about female leadership. For one, it implies that we are doing really well “for a girl.” Is female leadership such a strange or unnatural thing that we need to qualify it with such gendered terms? In this episode, Meaghan Lamm tells us why such titles are problematic, how female leadership is usually viewed by patriarchal society and how it is portrayed by the media. It is time to change our perception of female leadership. Ungendering leadership titles is a good place to start.

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Feminist VisionariesBy Meaghan Lamm