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October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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From hashtags such as #Hustling to #QuietQuitting, paid labour is a hotly discussed topic on social media. This paper explores key hashtags on Instagram and TikTok exploring gendered representations of paid labour. Social media is a key space in which young people explore the meaning of work beyond traditional spheres such as politics or trade union activism, and social media is recognized (and perhaps feared) as such. In the current fourth wave of feminism, mediations of work often take on a gendered dimension, such as in the supposedly empowered girlboss (Tran 2022). Under post feminism, this often took the form of ‘having it all’, where women seemingly effortlessly combined full-time work with being a wife and mother. In the popular feminist media environment, we see this myth continued in the #Girlboss and the #CorporateQueen but also encounter disillusionment with the impossibilities of these demands in hashtags such as #LazyGirlJobs. Analysing discourses of work in the context of post feminism and popular feminism, the paper explores the role work plays in constructions of contemporary femininity.
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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First up is our Chair: Nathalie Weidhase who presented this research at the most recent MeCCSA conference (you can also visit her research website here: www.surrey.ac.uk/research-pro...)
From #Girlboss to #LazyGirlJobs: Young women's working lives on and through social media | University of Surrey
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October 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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August 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM