The cult of being confident and why it doesn’t help women
By making women solely responsible for their own empowerment, the culture of confidence masks the true causes of inequality
by Rosalind Gill & Shani Orgad
Shani Orgad is professor of media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent books are Confidence Culture (2022) with co-author Rosalind Gill, and Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality (2019).
Written by Shani Orgad