"The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power"
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The subtext is second-wave-feminism adjacent, but filtered through a pop musician’s plainspoken suspicion of institutions. "Out of her power" suggests alienation: a woman moving through spaces designed by men, rewarded for adopting the codes that already dominate. The phrase "imitating male power" is the hinge. It implies that the corporate ladder doesn’t just demand labor; it demands a performance of authority that treats masculinity as the default operating system. If you want access, you learn the accent.
There’s also a romantic essentialism humming underneath: "female power" as something distinct, perhaps relational, embodied, or nonhierarchical. That can read as protective or patronizing, depending on the listener. Either way, Loggins is diagnosing a cultural bait-and-switch: emancipation offered on the condition that you become legible to a male-defined workplace, then praised for the transformation. The critique lands because it names the exhaustion of trying to win in a game whose rules you didn’t write.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Loggins, Kenny. (2026, January 15). The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-corporate-woman-has-been-defined-as-the-166130/
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Loggins, Kenny. "The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-corporate-woman-has-been-defined-as-the-166130/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-corporate-woman-has-been-defined-as-the-166130/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



