1) Confidence Gap in Academics

* Briefly addresses the confidence gap.

* Explains how low confidence affects girls’ achievement & impacts mental health.

* Offers strategies to grow girls’ confidence.

2) Body Consciousness

* Addresses roots of body consciousness.

* Explains how social media’s unrealistic beauty expectations affects girls’ mental health.

* Provides strategies to increase confidence.

3) Self-Esteem/Mental Health

* Addresses girls’ people pleasing tendencies.

* Teaches girls how to set boundaries & assert themselves.

* Teaches girls how to resolve conflict in a healthy manner.

1) Confidence Gap in Academics

* Discusses the biological and historical roots of girls’ decreased confidence.

* Explains how confidence affects scholastic achievement, career choice/success, and mental health.

* Offers strategies to grow girls’ confidence.

2) Body Consciousness

* Provides a historical context for diet culture and body/appearance pressure.

* Explains how social media targets girls’ appearances and affects mental health.

* Provides solutions to reduce social media’s influence.

3)   Self-Esteem/Mental Health

* Addresses girl’s people pleasing & passive aggressive tendencies.

* Teaches girls to set boundaries & assert themselves.

* Educates girls about their legal rights regarding cyberbullying and harassment.

* Informs educators about the psychological and biological factors driving the confidence gap.

* Informs educators how textbook bias and our own subconscious bias can unknowingly reinforce gender stereotypes.

* Discusses the importance of fostering an early interest in STEM.

* Discusses why girls are underrepresented in special education.

This seminar can be modified for all grades from early education through high school.

* Explains the roots of the gender confidence gap.

* Explains which childhood toys/activities can build confidence and how play can ultimately affect career choice.

* Explores how gender stereotypes are formed and reinforced during early childhood.

* Provides tools to set girls on a trajectory of confidence, self-esteem, and success.