CONTENTS Child of Refugees A Political Education The Working World Running for Congress Girls Who Code Moving forward Important Dates Source Notes Selected Bibliography Further Reading Index
Reshma Saujani speaks at an event in New York City in 2016
IN February 2016 Reshma Saujani stood in front of a crowd of about one thousand people She told them the story of her most humiliating failure She had run for political office in New York and she had lost The experience had been awful for her She felt as though she had disappointed her friends family and supporters She had lost a lot of money and she had failed But she said this experience was one of the first times in her life that she had felt truly brave Saujani was speaking at TED2016 Dream in Vancouver British Columbia TED Technology Entertainment Design features a popular series of inspiring talks Past speakers include Nobel Prize winners former presidents and leaders of major companies They speak about new ideas and ways to move society forward In her talk which has been viewed on the internet more than three million times Saujani said that society teaches young girls to avoid risk Young girls are told to smile look pretty and get good grades But society expects boys to be rough and to run around on the
