Kayleen Helms, who has acted as a teaching assistant for several years admits, however, that female instructors do view their students' opinions of them differently than men do. That does not phase him one single bit, but there are very few females that would say the same thing. Subtle evidence of that innate concern about others' feelings and thoughts appeared throughout the discussion as several women were careful to comment that they did not want to badmouth or over-generalize about men and that they realize their male counterparts haven't always had an easy road simply because of their gender. Irony duly noted. Popular media have raised the notion that a woman's self-esteem is developed as early as grade school and that without proper support, feelings of insecurity may displace it.
Men expect to like themselves.
I have a sixth-grade son and as long as he can run the fastest and jump the highest, he's fine, but for my daughter who's about the same age, it's a little bit different. Monica Medina says the experience of attending an all-female high school proved to her the significance of positive reinforcement early in a woman's life. We had all the nuns teaching us that women are better than men. And yes, you need confidence but we shouldn't have to send every girl to an all-female school to feel that way. She instilled it in me from a very early age that whatever I wanted to do, I could accomplish.