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Little girls are amazing.
What were these two girls doing?
Say you want to have five children, and would like to know the probability of having your dream family of three girls and two boys.
So we look at the row five, where the first number corresponds to five girls, and the last corresponds to five boys.
Later, when she decided she wanted to emigrate to the United States, she had to defy an entire culture that said the girls would never be the best and brightest.
So that awesome little kid, she came home from school last October from her half day of preschool with soggy pants on because the other kids at school were harassing her when she tried to use the girls' bathroom.
If you can't bring yourself to care enough about people like me, then what about women and girls with body image issues?
And Dr. Dichter himself conducted focus groups for Mattel to learn what girls wanted in a doll.
Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure.
In other words, we're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave.
Our economy, our society, we're just losing out because we're not raising our girls to be brave.
She found that bright girls were quick to give up.
Well, at the fifth grade level, girls routinely outperform boys in every subject, including math and science, so it's not a question of ability.
The difference is in how boys and girls approach a challenge.
So in 2012, I started a company to teach girls to code, and what I found is that by teaching them to code I had socialized them to be brave.
We immediately see in our program our girls' fear of not getting it right, of not being perfect.
Every Girls Who Code teacher tells me the same story.
During the first week, when the girls are learning how to code, a student will call her over and she'll say, "I don't know what code to write."
It turns out that our girls are really good at coding, but it's not enough just to teach them to code.
The girls will come in and say, "Professor, there's something wrong with me."
We have to begin to undo the socialization of perfection, but we've got to combine it with building a sisterhood that lets girls know that they are not alone.
When we teach girls to be brave and we have a supportive network cheering them on, they will build incredible things, and I see this every day.
These are just three examples of thousands, thousands of girls who have been socialized to be imperfect, who have learned to keep trying, who have learned perseverance.
We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now.
How many girls are involved now in your program?
So in 2012, we taught 20 girls.
And if you're not signed up, I'm going to find you, because we need every single tech company to embed a Girls Who Code classroom in their office.
But when she sees Mike taking girls home from parties, she's worried about them.
Davinia's impact started a few years ago when she reached out to all of her friends on Facebook, and asked them to donate their pennies so she could fund girls' education.
She wasn't expecting a huge response, but 700,000 pennies later, she's now sent over 120 girls to school.
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