Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani | TED Talk

Hear why Reshma Saujani, the founder of the Girls Who Code program, says we need to “Teach girls bravery, not perfection” to encourage more women in business and create more diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In her TED Talk, Saujani presents research evidence that we’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising boys to be brave––and she explains why this is detrimental to women in the workplace and adds to inequality. Saujani also talks about teaching young girls to take risks and learn programming––two skills they need for social change.

Learning objectives:

• Identify how our society socializes women to be perfect
• Explain why perfection impacts motivation and is holding women back in the workplace and beyond
• Describe why more women in the workplace is needed for social change