To wish women wouldn't call themselves mumpreneurs

[ShesMadeATwatOfMePam]

It just competely devalues a woman's massive achievement of running a business to call herself a mumpreneur. You don't see men calling themselves dadpreneurs. They're just businessmen, self employed, business owners, entrepreneurs. Just makes me cringe, as a woman who runs a business who also happens to have children.

Totally agree. Unless it’s a child based business in which case calling yourself a mumprenuer is a shrewd marketing move.

YANBU, it undermines a women's success in business that she is just a mum. Business women is much more appropriate unless it's some kind of weird marketing move

I also agree, I feel the same with ‘female boss’, no, you’re just a boss, men never use ‘male boss’.

Totally agree. But does anyone actually use that word to describe themselves? I always assumed it was patronising shite from lazy journalists.

I’ve never seen this outside of MLMs ie, I’ve never seen a real businesswoman do it.

It's usually MLM bots though isn't it?

It’s like calling yourself a “girl” or “bubbly”. Something that only the vacuous do.

I also agree, I feel the same with ‘female boss’,

Yep. Even worse though "boss babe"

It's definitely an MLM thing

I'm just setting up as self employed, and it hadn't occurred to me to use this term.

Considers it

0.002 seconds later - nope. Juck.

Mind you I wasn't going to use entrepreneur either. Just 'Really-tired-of-listing-shit-on-Amazon-eneur'. I'm to old and cynical to use any of these in-vogue titles.

*Yuck. Sorry tired from all the typing listings

Ugh do people actually say that? I've not heard it yet fortunately.

There is a group near me who describe themselves as mumprenuers. Its quite pathetic. None of them are mlm though, one is a photographer, another runs an art business, one does bouncy castle hire. I run my own bookkeeping business but am not deemed worthy to be invited, mind I don't so much of my own work these days as I didn't have many clients and now only 1 due to Web based invoicing systems meaning people can do most of it themselves

I've only heard this in two different areas

1. MLM 🤢
2. Baby centred business.

Yup. Gives out completely the wrong message. Really naff

Yanbu
I also can't stand "my little business".

To be fair I’ve only heard people involved in MLMs using it and it probably is a synonym for dodgy non-jobs targeted mothers at home.

It makes me cringe, along with ‘yummy mummy’. 🤢 Using, infantilising language like that just gives encouragement to sexist arseholes. I’d never hire someone who uses those terms. I run my own business, though it’s practically closed due to the pandemic. I remember one arsehole, when I explained that I had left my place of employment to concentrate on the business, saying to me “well it’s nice little hobby and if it gets you some pin money, you should go for it”. His stepson had previously said something similar to me. I decided that they were going straight off my books, by being fully booked, when they contacted me. They both practically begged me to take them back. Nope. They could fuck off. I’m not some little women, running a mummy business. I’m a grown woman, running a business and that’s it.

Same as 'girl boss'. Cringe. It's infantilising and sexist. Usually desperate SAHMs trying to flog MLM crap to anyone and everyone.

Lady doctor FFS

Hate that. Hate "BossBabe" as well.

Absolutely and can I also say that describing yourself on a CV as a full-time or part-time mummy really devalues your application.

I dont know. I get where you're coming from but I guess the people who do this probably feel it shows they're proud of juggling it all and want to say it like that. Each to their own. Many dads dont have the same hurdles to jump in starting up a business with young children in tow so dont identify in this way.

I haven't heard girl boss before but I have a friend who refers to being a "ladyboss" only semi-ironically. I always misread it as "ladyboy" which is definitely not the vibe she is going for...!

I've only ever seen it used on mn and I assumed it was used as an insult, which is what it sounds like; a bloody awful, patronising insult.

Can't imagine why any woman running a business and wanting people to take her seriously would refer to herself in that way.