Why it matters that the women on 'Younger' and 'The Bold Type' focus on careers as much as dating

Why it matters that the women on 'Younger' and 'The Bold Type' focus on careers as much as dating

Why it matters that the women on 'Younger' and 'The Bold Type' focus on careers as much as dating

By / Career / Sunday, 15 July 2018 16:50

In the first episode of "The Bold Type's" second season, a fashion assistant decides to break up with her boyfriend, an older man who works for the board overseeing the Cosmopolitan-esque fashion magazine where she works. "It's a gamble, but I am putting my money down on my career," she tells him. "And believing that love will fall into place."

There's something refreshing about seeing the women on this earnest Freeform series, about the rising staffers at fictional Scarlet magazine, place more emphasis on their careers than their romantic relationships. It's similar to what is happening on "Younger," a TV Land dramedy that stars Sutton Foster as Liza, a 40-something woman posing as a 20-something book editor.

 

Read more at Chicago Tribune.

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