About the book
Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani argues that girls are taught to be perfect while boys are taught to be brave, and that women carry the cost into adult life. Praised for being quiet and polite and steered toward activities where they could shine, many grow up afraid to fail, to take risks, to speak up or to ask for what they want. Saujani makes the case for choosing bravery over perfection and offers practices for turning courage into a lifelong habit. The book grew out of her TED talk and draws on interviews with hundreds of girls and women, stories of women acting bravely, and her own experience.
Adam Grant put it on his list of 19 new leadership books to read in 2019, describing it as an examination of how girls and women can be released from the weight of social expectations.
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Adam Grant (Author)
The perfect is not just the enemy of the good; the pressure to be perfect is the enemy of girls around the world. Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, examines how to free girls—and women—from the shackles of social expectations.
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