Science & Technology
Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, builds movements to fight for the economic empowerment of women and girls. Watch her full TED Talk:
Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, builds movements to fight for the economic empowerment of women and girls. Watch her full TED Talk:
Intergalactic turtle
March 8, 2023 at 12:02 pm
First
Wendi Watson
March 8, 2023 at 12:04 pm
EPIC TED TALK !! , & yes! I was raised w/ the myth. ” smile pretty” .😑😑
jtipple1
March 8, 2023 at 12:05 pm
Wow
Rensune
March 8, 2023 at 12:07 pm
Where did they find this speaker, the 50s?
This hasn’t been true for SEVERAL generations
ᘻᘿᖶᗩ ᐺ
March 8, 2023 at 12:23 pm
Exactly!
BeefAndPumpkinSoup
March 8, 2023 at 12:50 pm
Wait, which country?
LionUniverse14
March 8, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Eh not at all, it’s only been a few generations that women have the right to vote or go to university, in some countries women still don’t have that…what are you talking about?
This speaker is simplifying things in this short (havent seen the full talk so idk what else she mentions) but it is true. It’s one of the reasons why why girls over perform in school and university but don’t get promoted as often as men. There are a lot of other reasons, ofc, but this is one of them.
أسامة بن نادر
March 8, 2023 at 12:09 pm
This is bs, teach your girl to be a girl and wife and to take care of her family
s_.
March 8, 2023 at 12:42 pm
How your so smart wow the smartest comment ever
Anaiss J
March 8, 2023 at 12:58 pm
What if she is infertile or if she wants to have a successful career instead. Are women not allowed to have careers and study according to you? Where you born in the 1800s?
SLYKM
March 8, 2023 at 1:14 pm
Interesting comment. If a woman is going to school and applying for a job that doesn’t mean she can’t take care of a family, if she wants one.
Ain’t no way I’m raising any child to be dependent on a partner when they can learn to care for themselves.
Ella L.
March 8, 2023 at 1:45 pm
Yikes
C C
March 8, 2023 at 12:17 pm
No waaay most women only apply to jobs when they meet 100 percent qualifications.
SLYKM
March 8, 2023 at 1:06 pm
Why’s that?
Dru LLoring
March 8, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Boys aren’t taught to play rough or be brave lol
Thato Mofolo
March 8, 2023 at 12:25 pm
Teach girls to stop with their tendency of being 304s Kiki copycats 🥱🥱🥱
42k y algo más
March 8, 2023 at 12:28 pm
What….???? This speech is not based on true facts.
Mojo
March 8, 2023 at 12:34 pm
The problem is we’re no longer raising boys to be brave. Show me a brave millennial or gen z. They’re very few and far between. We’re feminizing boys and telling women they don’t need men and not to have children. This woman is adding to the destruction of western civilization. She’s a hack and so is TED.
Ella L.
March 8, 2023 at 1:45 pm
🤦🏻♀️
Michael Cerda
March 8, 2023 at 12:40 pm
does she this it’s still the 1980s?
SLYKM
March 8, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Do you not notice how there is still people today who argue that career women need to still prioritize the home and children even if both parents work? Not even single fathers are expected to be good parents, they get extra praise for being a good dad bc they aren’t expected to be. And this also contributes to why it’s harder for men to get custody. Patriarchy is a cycle that is still reinforced today.
MissMarisa7Beauty
March 8, 2023 at 12:55 pm
AMEN
julisa kyani
March 8, 2023 at 12:59 pm
Funny how all the negative comments are men…almost like it’s proving her point.
El Negro Tigre
March 8, 2023 at 2:05 pm
Honestly seen a lot more negative comments from women
Joshua W
March 8, 2023 at 7:13 pm
Funny how all the positive comments are from foreigners…almost like it’s proving you’re all NPCs who will believe anything.
Gostosinho Gamer
March 8, 2023 at 12:59 pm
In that case… shouldn’t we fix man ?
SLYKM
March 8, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Why?
Elijah Meinhard
March 8, 2023 at 2:11 pm
No men are the one succeeding more so why would you want to see men succeed less rather than woman succeed more?
Saumya Gupta
March 8, 2023 at 3:27 pm
@Elijah Meinhard why is career success the underlying thing that we strive for anyways?
Marti
March 8, 2023 at 1:17 pm
I’m a woman, I’m a programmer and yes I will not apply for the job unless I meet 100% of the qualifications even though I know they’re not needed (yeah I’m a fricking perfectionist)
c h
March 8, 2023 at 1:59 pm
I’m a woman, she doesn’t seem qualified to be talking. 100% is an impossible statistic. Talk about confusing information, teach women to be brave and not perfect by claiming women are always perfect.
Sebastian Antonelli
March 8, 2023 at 2:09 pm
I wouldn’t say always perfection is boring strove to be yourself and accept the things you are self conscious about
c h
March 8, 2023 at 2:16 pm
@Sebastian Antonelli it’s just an obvious push on gender bias to cause division. The only way to find perfection is to accept no one is completely perfect. Simple paradoxes of life.
bergstrom oliver
March 8, 2023 at 2:10 pm
Be Brave.
Oluwayemisi Babalola
March 8, 2023 at 2:23 pm
❤❤
Alan Prime
March 8, 2023 at 2:51 pm
Gotta succeed more fellas
Raise the bar even higher 👆
losttribel
March 8, 2023 at 3:12 pm
My God these feminists are making everything us against them! Go compete in getting farmers and plumbers jobs too!
Saumya Gupta
March 8, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Why dont we teach the boys to be perfectionist?
G420 ☝︎
March 8, 2023 at 7:51 pm
Uhm no. Raise both to be different from that.
johnny_blz
March 10, 2023 at 6:13 am
Yeah…i have that and can tell you is the key to failure in life. It can turn the simplest things into suffering AND affect everyone around you.
Joel S
March 8, 2023 at 3:47 pm
Great, another successful woman complaining…
Joshua W
March 8, 2023 at 7:11 pm
what a stupid video, men are not taught to be brave anymore than women are she’s making this up
Cool Sunday
March 8, 2023 at 7:19 pm
Lack of bravery is why girsl don’t do STEM! really?
Tan
March 10, 2023 at 2:32 pm
I think it’s because there’s not as much of a social aspect
James Michaels
March 8, 2023 at 11:50 pm
So stop doing it then lady on the stage!
Ara
March 9, 2023 at 1:41 am
Some celebrated the International Women’s Day when can’t even decide what a woman is ..
H4rT
March 9, 2023 at 1:50 am
probs so
H4rT
March 9, 2023 at 1:52 am
this why u never see girls saying “be my boyfriend”
hello bro
March 9, 2023 at 4:51 am
my girlfriend did
H4rT
March 9, 2023 at 4:58 am
@hello bro well, that’s rare case
hello bro
March 9, 2023 at 5:13 am
@H4rT my friend’s girlfriend too
hello bro
March 9, 2023 at 4:49 am
her eyes literally say “GIRLS MUST BE BETTER THAN BOYS”
Tan
March 10, 2023 at 2:31 pm
Just as brave*
hello bro
March 11, 2023 at 1:54 am
@Tan nah, it’s clear she hates men. radical feminism
hello bro
March 9, 2023 at 4:50 am
if some girls cannot get a job in STEM, it’s not because they’re not brave, it’s because they’re not smart enough.
hello bro
March 9, 2023 at 4:53 am
women cannot be happy without children & husband. same thing goes for men. Everyone needs family to be happy, because nobody will care about your career after you’re 50.
The6thElement
March 9, 2023 at 8:45 am
Years ago, I applied for a job with 80% of the qualifications. I didn’t have my full degree as yet, but had over 20 years experience in office support/management. The chauvinistic attorney interviewer scolded me for even applying. I can’t repeat what I said to him; then reported him to the DOL.
eleycki
March 9, 2023 at 10:39 am
Don’t worry, the future is safe; my girls certainly aren’t perfect.
C Le Bouthillier
March 9, 2023 at 10:40 am
60%? . Yup I fit that . I can’t lie on my resume at all. Part of why I’ve been unemployed for years
PLF
March 9, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Women are not perfect, in fact most are incredibly average. And until they learn to see themselves as such, they are never going to fit in.
Adi Green
March 9, 2023 at 11:22 pm
Lala land
DumbDave961
March 10, 2023 at 12:25 am
I remember my teacher playing this one in our Computers class.
Carlo Andreatta
March 10, 2023 at 9:44 am
Are you sure ” boys are taught to..” and ” girls are taught to..” ?
And if it was something essential that speaks about the differences between woman and man?
Vlad Vlog
March 10, 2023 at 11:42 am
How about teaching girls how to take responsibility. That would be a start.
Wand
March 11, 2023 at 8:36 am
Its about handling rejection
GunsCarsBikesCigars
March 11, 2023 at 11:45 pm
Teach girls to swallow and smile if you want success and fulfillment
Zainal Muttaqin
March 13, 2023 at 9:58 am
boy and girl is different…
William Helfrich
March 13, 2023 at 9:07 pm
more single ladies are home owners than single men, sounds like their pretty brave