Education and Women's Resiliency by Pamela LePage-Lees.
Few studies explore the reasons children from disadvantaged homes become successful achievers.
In her study, high achievers are those women who have pursued advanced study in academia. It was important to her to offer her own voice along with those of her colleagues and peers who participated in the study. Though she includes her own opinions, she makes a remarkable effort to represent the participants' viewpoints in an unbiased way. She presents their stories and other information that she has gathered through lengthy individual interviews, questionnaires, and school records. Twenty-one women representing a number of different ethnic groups and various age groups comprise this study, with the majority of the volunteers being Caucasian.