Gen Z Archives - Empoword Journalism https://www.empowordjournalism.com/tag/gen-z/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:31:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Complex Reality Of Online Misogyny https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-complex-reality-of-online-misogyny/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-complex-reality-of-online-misogyny/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:31:44 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=68571 The reality of online misogyny is concerning and pervasive, propagated via platforms which are normally designed to foster connection. How can this be tackled?

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-complex-reality-of-online-misogyny/feed/ 0 Does The 20-Year Rule Still Apply In 2024? https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/lifestyle/does-the-20-year-rule-still-apply-in-2024/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/lifestyle/does-the-20-year-rule-still-apply-in-2024/#respond Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:20:54 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=54792 Throughout 2023, a handful of fashion trends resurfaced 20 years after they were initially popular. Y2K trends, including cargos, bootleg jeans and bucket hats, returned from the dead. Experts believe this is how the cycle of fashion always works. But will 2024 follow this 20-year rule?

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/lifestyle/does-the-20-year-rule-still-apply-in-2024/feed/ 0 Are Gen Z Lazy Workers? https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/are-gen-z-lazy-workers/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/are-gen-z-lazy-workers/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:50:45 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=53575 In an interview with The Guardian, Generation Z was recently put on blast by Actress Jodie Foster, who labelled them annoying to work with and described the overall attitude of those born between the mid-90s and early 2010 as “difficult to understand.”

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/are-gen-z-lazy-workers/feed/ 0 The Internet’s Obsession with Gypsy Rose Blanchard https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-internets-obsession-with-gypsy-rose-blanchard/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-internets-obsession-with-gypsy-rose-blanchard/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:10:35 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=54125 Given the internet's fascination with true crime, the revived obsession with Gypsy Rose Blanchard comes as no surprise. But Gypsy becoming the new it girl was not in anyone's 2024 predictions.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-internets-obsession-with-gypsy-rose-blanchard/feed/ 0 Jodie Foster and “Annoying” Gen Z: The Generation Wars https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/jodie-foster-and-annoying-gen-z-the-generation-wars/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/jodie-foster-and-annoying-gen-z-the-generation-wars/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:45:57 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=53004 Actress Jodie Foster’s criticisms of Gen Z have reignited the online war between the old and the young. Is there any truth behind the allegations that '90s and 2000s kids are whiny, lazy and annoying?

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/jodie-foster-and-annoying-gen-z-the-generation-wars/feed/ 0 TikTok ‘Core’: A Suffix For Any Occasion https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/tiktok-core-a-suffix-for-any-occasion/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/tiktok-core-a-suffix-for-any-occasion/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:25:37 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=51173 If you’re strong enough to have resisted TikTok's beckoning grasp for this long, then you're healthier and more irrelevant for it. But if instead you've succumbed to its seductive allure, you might know what "goblin core" or "pilgrim core" entails.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/tiktok-core-a-suffix-for-any-occasion/feed/ 0 Reality Check Of The Job Market: The Post Graduate Crisis https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/features/reality-check-of-the-job-market-the-post-graduate-crisis/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/features/reality-check-of-the-job-market-the-post-graduate-crisis/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:34:23 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=37203 So, you've graduated. You’ve got yourself a bachelors, maybe a Masters or a PhD, it’s the golden ticket to a successful life. After all, so many years of intense study and living under the poverty threshold (for some of us) should pay off. You’re in your mid-twenties, it’s about time to start a life… That doesn’t come.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/features/reality-check-of-the-job-market-the-post-graduate-crisis/feed/ 0 The End Of Humanity: Is Gen-Z Going Child-free? https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-end-of-humanity-is-gen-z-going-child-free/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-end-of-humanity-is-gen-z-going-child-free/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:57:19 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=36707 Gen Z receives a lot of coverage in the news for being a supposedly ‘sex-phobic’ generation – a claim often conflated to suggest Gen Z are the reason for the declining birth rate in Britain. Older generations are quick to blame the use of mobile phones and the internet. As a member of Gen-Z myself, I thought it was worth considering whether these claims are accurate.

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]]> https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/the-end-of-humanity-is-gen-z-going-child-free/feed/ 0 Fashion Forecast 2022: The ‘Euphoria’ is Real With These Trends https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/lifestyle/fashion-forecast-2022-the-euphoria-is-real-with-these-trends/ https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/lifestyle/fashion-forecast-2022-the-euphoria-is-real-with-these-trends/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:50:54 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.com/?p=22176 Ananya Ranjit “I think we will see a broader acceptance on how to dress for any occasion, whether that’s wearing leggings and trainers to the opera or full drag into the office”, said Andrew Ibi, co-founder of FACE, about post-pandemic fashion. Now, as the world begins to reconcile with the

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