“(Girl) Boss” and gender equality: on the relevance of female CEOs By: Joana Capaz Coelho In 2017, Netflix released a series called “Girl Boss”. Broadly speaking, the series is based on Sophia Amoruso´s autobiography, titled #Girl Boss. Sophia Amoruso is an American businesswoman of Portuguese, Greek, and Italian descent who 2006 founded Nasty Gal [1] – a company whose initial purpose was to resell second-hand vintage clothes. However, step by step, Amoruso created an empire. According to that Netflix series, the first piece to be sold on Nasty Gal would have been a “biker-style” jacket that Sophia had bought for US$ 9 and resold, on eBay, for around US$ 600. It is not known precisely whether these facts are entirely reality or fiction, but one thing is certain: 10 years after the creation of the Nasty Gal company, Forbes named Sophia Amoruso one of the “Richest Self-Made Women in the world” with a fort