I selected Reshma Saujani talk Teach girls bravery, not perfection because the title immediately jumped out at me. Girls everywhere want the perfect body, the perfect boyfriend, straight A’s, cute clothes and other materialistic items. Why do we have such an urge to attain these things? It’s because we’ve been told our whole lives we need to be perfect or as Saujani states “be pretty and play it safe”. As a kid I would see my brother do things and wonder why I couldn’t do them. I knew I was just as smart and capable as him but it would never be enough. As the years have gone by it’s been harder and harder to raise my hand in class. When the teacher asks a question I stare at them blankly but actually knowing what the answer is. For fear of one wrong answer would cast me as the dumb blonde, I stay quiet. However, if I was raised the way a boy was raised my hand would shoot up in the air and confidently answer the question. …show more content…
Saujani says “ we’re raising our girls to be perfect and we’re raising our boys to be brave”. Throughout the talk Saujani asks rhetorical questions making you think about why girls are the way they are. She convinces us of the reasons why girls are “so quick to give up but boys think of it as a challenge”. She talks about the lack of women in STEM and congress and how if women we’re in the job force it would help our economy in so many ways. Women don’t go for these jobs because “they’ll only apply if they reach 100% of the qualifications, while men will apply if they reach 60% of the