Schoolgirls

Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap

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SchoolGirls examines the lives of teenage girls and reveals that despite perceptions of progress toward equality between the sexes, fundamentally things have not really advanced much. Written in association with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the book is deeply rooted in a broad-based 1990 AAUW poll, which found that American girls still fall into traditional patterns of low self-image and self-censorship and that they emerge from adolescence with reduced expectations of life and much less self-confidence than do boys. Complimentary Readers Companion Booklet available.
Peggy Orenstein is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and her work has also appeared in many other publications. View titles by Peggy Orenstein
"This important book should be read by  parents raising children of all ages and of both sexes."  -- New York Times Book  Review.

"This book is to young girls what  Black Beauty is to horses, what Upton  Sinclair's The Jungle was to the  processing of meat. To read School  Girls is to remember -- how reluctantly! -- what  it means to be a girl in junior high." --  Carolyn See, Washington Post Book  World.

"Orenstein's study should be  required reading for all American teachers. And  students. And everyone else. [grade] A." --  Entertainment Weekly.

"School Girls is a fascinating book.  Hopefully it will be read by the right people --  parents and educators who could change the  experience of young girls in the future." --  Los Angeles Times Book Review.

"School Girls cautions those of us  who educate and mold young people to wake up and  see the social and intellectual consequences of  simply letting 'girls be girls' and boys be boys.'"  -- New York Newsday.

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SchoolGirls examines the lives of teenage girls and reveals that despite perceptions of progress toward equality between the sexes, fundamentally things have not really advanced much. Written in association with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the book is deeply rooted in a broad-based 1990 AAUW poll, which found that American girls still fall into traditional patterns of low self-image and self-censorship and that they emerge from adolescence with reduced expectations of life and much less self-confidence than do boys. Complimentary Readers Companion Booklet available.

Author

Peggy Orenstein is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and her work has also appeared in many other publications. View titles by Peggy Orenstein

Praise

"This important book should be read by  parents raising children of all ages and of both sexes."  -- New York Times Book  Review.

"This book is to young girls what  Black Beauty is to horses, what Upton  Sinclair's The Jungle was to the  processing of meat. To read School  Girls is to remember -- how reluctantly! -- what  it means to be a girl in junior high." --  Carolyn See, Washington Post Book  World.

"Orenstein's study should be  required reading for all American teachers. And  students. And everyone else. [grade] A." --  Entertainment Weekly.

"School Girls is a fascinating book.  Hopefully it will be read by the right people --  parents and educators who could change the  experience of young girls in the future." --  Los Angeles Times Book Review.

"School Girls cautions those of us  who educate and mold young people to wake up and  see the social and intellectual consequences of  simply letting 'girls be girls' and boys be boys.'"  -- New York Newsday.

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