What Girls Need: How to raise bold, courageous, and resilient women, reviewed

We review this interesting and timely book by Marisa Porges. What Girls Need is available from Viking, Penguin here.

Children today face an uncertain future, and parents and teachers can’t fully predict what’s in store for their daughter and sons. But one thing is clear: Our kids need a new set of skills to succeed. Girls, in particular, must nurture essential traits to fully flourish. Students hit the ground running today, entering a school system that carries high expectations on their way to a college application process that is more demanding than ever.

After school, young women enter a competitive job market, still complicated by sexism and the possibility of harassment. But the ways we define leadership are also changing, and the women stepping into those roles are mapping new paths to inhabiting traits like grit, resilience, audacity, and self-confidence. What Girls Need shows how parents and educators can foster these critical twenty-first-century skills in our girls and help them to recognize and nurture their inherent strengths—to not just thrive but also find joy and purpose as they come of age in our ever-evolving world.

What Girls Need: How to raise bold, courageous, and resilient women, reviewed

Porges takes us on an interesting and readable journey through her own life and the insights it has enabled her to bring to trying to inspire the next generation of strong, successful and empowered women. It is noteworthy as this is someone who has clearly excelled, both in the US Airforce, and then also in the Obama administration. And yet has also reflected on those moments where she realised she did not push her case as strongly on some occasions as men in the same position as her.

From this position of reflection and awareness Porges aims to walk the reader through various ways to help readers to achieve better outcomes. The book takes a practical approach and each chapter discusses optimal strategies to achieve better outcomes for people in these situations. Porges says that she has written the book for both young girls and boys too, a similar comment as when we interviewed Shannon Polson in our podcast. This is something we will explore when we feature Porges in an upcoming edition of the podcast also.

Thanks @GDST for having me join the series! #whatgirlsneed #wheregirlslearnwithoutlimits https://t.co/HhW7HAjtxA

— MarisaPorges (@MarisaPorges) December 3, 2020

The book is timely, the author is passionate, a super high achiever herself, and now with the potential to positively inspire and influence many more young leaders in the future. One to watch.

More about Marisa Porges

Marisa Porges PhD, is the eighth Head of School for The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and change-makers. Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on worldwide counterterrorism efforts; and served in the U.S. Navy as one of eight female aviators in an air wing of two hundred. She lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her family.

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