48 min
031: Reshma Saujani — Teaching Our Girls to Be Brave, Not Perfect That's Total Mom Sense
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- Parenting
In 2019, women earn .79 cents for every dollar a man makes. Though we can attribute the gender pay gap to several factors including occupational segregation, bias against working mothers, and circumstances like racial bias, disability, and access to education, there’s no denying numbers and that we still have a lot of work to do to create an even playing field.
On today’s episode, I am thrilled to have a woman and mother who has been an advocate for closing the gender gap throughout her career.
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in tech and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does. It has reached 185,000 girls in all 50 states, Canada, and the UK. In 2019, Girls Who Code was awarded Most Innovative Non-Profit by Fast Company.
Reshma is the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect and has a podcast with the same name and the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World. Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection,” has more than four million views and has sparked a worldwide conversation about how we’re raising our girls.
She began her career as an attorney and activist. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, she visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code.
She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Yale Law. Her work on behalf of young women has earned her broad recognition on lists including: Fortune World’s Greatest Leaders; Fortune 40 Under 40; WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year; Forbes Most Powerful Women Changing the World; and Fast Company 100 Most Creative People, among others.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal, their son, Shaan, and bulldog, Stanley.
Meet My Guest:
WEBSITE: ReshmaSaujani.com
WEBSITE: GirlsWhoCode.com
INSTAGRAM: @reshmasaujani
INSTAGRAM: @girlswhocode
FACEBOOK: /reshma.saujani
FACEBOOK: /GirlsWhoCode
LINKEDIN: @reshma-saujani
Show Notes:
01:51: Introduction
04:03: How Reshma and Kanika met
05:10: Background
07:10: Changing your given name
10:00: Using your life in the service of others
12:30: Rejection, failure and recovery
15:55: Women in technology
20:20: Girls are change makers
22:40: Learning to code
27:55: Allowing boys to be vulnerable and emotional
30:00: Pregnancy and APS
39:40: Learning how to prioritize you
40:50: Mom Sense moment
41:11: Quote of the day: "Brave, not perfect"
41:46: Mom Haul
Mom Haul:
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In 2019, women earn .79 cents for every dollar a man makes. Though we can attribute the gender pay gap to several factors including occupational segregation, bias against working mothers, and circumstances like racial bias, disability, and access to education, there’s no denying numbers and that we still have a lot of work to do to create an even playing field.
On today’s episode, I am thrilled to have a woman and mother who has been an advocate for closing the gender gap throughout her career.
Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in tech and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does. It has reached 185,000 girls in all 50 states, Canada, and the UK. In 2019, Girls Who Code was awarded Most Innovative Non-Profit by Fast Company.
Reshma is the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect and has a podcast with the same name and the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World. Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection,” has more than four million views and has sparked a worldwide conversation about how we’re raising our girls.
She began her career as an attorney and activist. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. During the race, she visited local schools and saw the gender gap in computing classes firsthand, which led her to start Girls Who Code.
She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Yale Law. Her work on behalf of young women has earned her broad recognition on lists including: Fortune World’s Greatest Leaders; Fortune 40 Under 40; WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year; Forbes Most Powerful Women Changing the World; and Fast Company 100 Most Creative People, among others.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal, their son, Shaan, and bulldog, Stanley.
Meet My Guest:
WEBSITE: ReshmaSaujani.com
WEBSITE: GirlsWhoCode.com
INSTAGRAM: @reshmasaujani
INSTAGRAM: @girlswhocode
FACEBOOK: /reshma.saujani
FACEBOOK: /GirlsWhoCode
LINKEDIN: @reshma-saujani
Show Notes:
01:51: Introduction
04:03: How Reshma and Kanika met
05:10: Background
07:10: Changing your given name
10:00: Using your life in the service of others
12:30: Rejection, failure and recovery
15:55: Women in technology
20:20: Girls are change makers
22:40: Learning to code
27:55: Allowing boys to be vulnerable and emotional
30:00: Pregnancy and APS
39:40: Learning how to prioritize you
40:50: Mom Sense moment
41:11: Quote of the day: "Brave, not perfect"
41:46: Mom Haul
Mom Haul:
RENT THE RUNWAY: The Premier Designer Rental Destination
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
48 min