A study published in the journal Science Advanced reveals that teenage girls are more likely than their peers to attribute ultimate failure to their own lack of talent. It is not a conclusion based on discretion and hypotheses, but a result obtained from the response of 50,000 students from 72 countries to a question in the PISA program’s 2018 survey. Nor is it a radically new discovery, as other reports have already highlighted the lack of female references when both male and female students are asked about highly intelligent people, or proving the paradox that six-year-old girls are less likely than boys to think about it. People of their own kind are intelligent. They blame their own shortcomings when something goes wrong, “I’m afraid I don’t have enough talent when I fail”, literally in PISA, girls respond positively with 61 percent, while boys respond positively with 61 percent. they say so, they do it 47 percent. While the famous inner voice boycotts our daughters, who changed the whole in the face of a certain failure, with worse milk, our sons consider other options, such as a negative situation, pure luck, a bad day or a simple unlucky fate. This way of acknowledging one’s inability at first failure contributes to the denial of the vital and professional challenges that result in the resounding absence of women in positions of responsibility, traditionally male jobs, political positions, and the like. over. They often don’t think they’re out of capacity. But I went to the problems of our generation of educated women so as not to disturb or stand out while the alarms were ringing in the quarry. I thought of the famous “imposter syndrome,” which paralyzes those who suffer because they don’t see themselves worthy of responsibility or the challenge they’re offered, crushing themselves into believing they can’t do the job. Whoever believes he won’t do it deserves his success, it was an evil instilled in the younger generation. Women with irresistible charisma like Michelle Obama, Angela Merkel, or Meryl Streep have suffered from it, and luckily (and with great effort, they say) overcame this kind of self-esteem decay that orders women not to take their place. has been gained. But the thing that confuses me about adolescents is that it will turn out that we women serially come across as insecure because of some biological or environmental issue.
Then what can we do for our girls? The Science Advanced research explains that the most notable differences between girls and boys’ perceptions of their capacities that are unfavorable for them are precisely those in countries with higher levels of social equality and more development. Bomb. More rights and less stumbling, less self-confidence. Better conditions for girls to test their full potential, equally toxic gender stereotypes. It seems to me that the macho reaction to women’s advances may lead him to avoid competition and challenge. I don’t want it as a shield to live more peacefully, I can’t, I don’t know. Nor did their cultural references include strong women who made mistakes and moved on, accepting challenges and having time to repent. We must explain very well that the only way to live without fear is to allow yourself to make mistakes.