When women are close to this nature, the fact of that relationship glows through them. Her discovery that most women have a well-articulated self in childhood that is lost in the process of becoming an adult provides an engaging bridge between the traditional psychology of Williams and the more anthropological, mystical writing of Estes. Rather girls are encouraged to become proper, to fit in, to reign in the explorations she finds fascinating, to become a nuturer rather than striving for competence and excellence. In adolescence, girls become smaller and weaker than boys. They begin to notice that men are central to the accomplishments in science, business, medicine, and education.
Few stories are available about successful women.
Traditional female roles begin to reduce aspirations and accessible options. Hancock proposes that the key to a woman ' s identity is the rediscovery of the girl within. Perry did not report this level for the college men he studied. In addition, Belenky et al. provide suggestions as to how to educate women that takes into account their cognitive growth patterns. Bingham and Stryker propose that if a girl does not achieve a sense of achievement prior to puberty, it is very difficult to develop later because of the heavy social pressures toward conformity.