The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women
Noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters, a research psychologist and a pediatric oncology researcher, conducted an extensive three-year survey among more than one thousand satisfied woman who have achieved success in their careers. She explored in depth these women's childhoods, adolescences and young adulthoods, noting what the women had in common and culling from her findings important advice on how parents can give their own daughters the same advantages.
Based on extensive research, this book provides invaluable advice for helping girls deal with issues such as middle-school grade decline, math anxieties, eating disorders, self-esteem and competition and the glass ceiling. Profiles of seventeen women in disparate careers illuminate the rewards and penalties of linear versus delayed career patterns and show the typical pathways for women in specific fields.
Despite the many victories of the women's movement, little girls are still given negative messages about their potential and prospects. Dr Rimm shows parents how to combat those messages and give their daughters the confidence and skills they need to follow in the footsteps of the successful women surveyed.
