Why this project?

Start with what our daughters
are living through.

• 53% of female high-school students reported persistent sadness or hopelessness in 2023.¹ Among girls ages 3–17, 13% had current diagnosed anxiety in 2023–24.² And 46% of adolescents say social media makes them feel worse about their body.³

The Blind Spots

Double standards

• Our daughters will face double standards that we have never had to deal with, so we don’t know what to teach them: how to spot them, name them, defend themselves, and avoid them.
• People will underestimate them more often.
• People will try to take advantage of them more often.
• They will feel like they have to say sorry more often.

Societal underrepresentation

• In a top-cited psychiatry sample, men held 76% of first-author and 80% of senior-author positions.⁴ Women were only 12–14% of APA journal authors in the 1960s.⁵
• In a large Open Syllabus analysis of assigned college readings, men outnumbered women among the most-assigned authors 718 to 100—roughly 88% to 12% in that comparison.⁶ The curriculum is not neutral just because it feels familiar.
• Women run a record 11% of Fortune 500 companies⁷ and hold 28% of the seats in the U.S. Congress.⁸
• Only 67 women have ever won a Nobel Prize, out of roughly 1,000 laureates since 1901.⁹
• Women directed just 13% of the top 250 films of 2025.¹⁰ Startups founded only by women received about 1% of U.S. venture capital in 2024.¹¹
• For decades, crash-test dummies were modeled on the average man. A belted woman has 73% greater odds of serious injury in a frontal crash than a man in the same crash.¹²