{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew-books-in-higher-education.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fhow-girls-achieve-WACH5JZR","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"How Girls Achieve","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8e40fd63-083d-4b15-bc17-db5f44fce69c/993692a7-c50d-479f-902d-16eacde57685/2d5a12325f02b41866081a58d8d7827a.png","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. Sally Nuamah calls “feminist schools,” deliberately designed to provide girls with achievement-oriented identities. And she shows how these schools would help all students, regardless of their gender.\n\nEducated women raise healthier families, build stronger communities, and generate economic opportunities for themselves and their children. Yet millions of disadvantaged girls never make it to school—and too many others drop out or fail. Upending decades of advice and billions of dollars in aid, Dr, Nuamah argues that this happens because so many challenges girls confront—from sexual abuse to unequal access to materials and opportunities—go unaddressed. But it isn’t enough just to go to school. What you learn there has to prepare you for the world where you’ll put that knowledge to work.\n\nDr. Nuamah reveals that developing resilience is not a gender-neutral undertaking. Preaching grit doesn’t help girls; it actively harms them. Drawing on her deep immersion in classrooms in the United States, Ghana, and South Africa, Nuamah calls for a new approach: creating feminist schools that will actively teach girls how and when to challenge society’s norms, and allow them to carve out their own paths to success.\n\nGuest: Dr. Sally A. Nuamah is an associate professor of Urban Politics in Human Development, Social Policy and Political Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. She has received numerous awards; began the TWII Foundation to provide funding for girls striving to be first in their families to go to college; and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a Women and Public Policy fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.\n\nHost is: Dr. Christina Gessler is the producer of the both Academic Life podcast and the show’s weekly newsletter. She is a writing coach and developmental editor for academics.\n\nListeners may be interested in:\n\nTeacher By Teacher\nDoing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change\nBlack Girls and How We Fail Them\nLeading from the Margins\nHow We Show Up\nHow Schools Make Race\nBlack Woman On Board\nRemembering Lucille\nCan I Say That?\nTeaching About Race And Racism\nWelcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Please join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 300+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening!\n\nThis episode was originally published Nov 6, 2020"}