9 Netflix shows that celebrate young, empowering women

Girl power!🤘

Stranger Things / Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt / Orange is the New Black
Published 22nd May 2017

Online streaming company Netflix is celebrating young, empowering women, so whether you are in the middle of your exams, about to start your first job or travel the world here are some fantastic TV shows that all women can enjoy and relate to!

In these shows are a whole host of leading women from Sophia setting up her own business in GirlBoss to the whole cast in Orange is the New Black. Then there's Kimmy finding her feet in a new city in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and of course the wonderful 13-year-old Millie Bobby Brown who plays the part of Eleven in the award winning Stranger Things.

1) GirlBoss

Rebellious and broke, Sophia stumbles into creating an online business and learns how to be the boss. A comedy inspired by the best-selling memoir.

2) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

3) Orange is the New Black

A privileged New Yorker ends up in a women’s prison when a past crime catches up with her in this Emmy-winning series from the creator of Weeds.

4) Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.

5) Riverdale

Throughout the series Betty Cooper fights to uncover the truth and write about the real story behind the death of Jason Blossom who died under mysterious circumstances. Even though she has to go against her parents' wishes, pressure from both her school and the authority she finds justice for her friends.

6) The OA

Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.

7) Pretty Little Liars

Rudderless without their missing leader, four formerly tight high school friends band together when a blackmailer threatens to spill their dirt.

8) Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.

9) The Crown

This drama follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century.