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Physically than their brothers. girls are still dropping out of competitive sports at a much higher rate than young boys are. those are the things parents need to be aware of. that quest for perfection in young girls is the thing that kills a womans confidence when she wants to put her hand up and ask for a raise, go for a promotion that seems a little bit out of reach. the kind of things women are holding back from have roots in trying to get our girls to be good. >> their quest for perfection,...

Mrs. clinton was just talking about. women do tend to carry criticism with them. we are endlessly dwelling on the tiny thing we do wrong and not the very things weve done right. a lot of the confidence code is about thinking a bit less and acting a bit more and being authentic to who we are. if we combine all of that, we can crack it. >> lets put it out there. we are three relatively successive women and katy anchor and correspondent and clair, anchor and correspondent, from a white house corres...

Female empowerment. >> "the confidence code" looks at how to fix the gaps in the workplace. im more interested, though, you talk about millennials and the younger generation and graduates seniors. and what they could have that we could have used 20, 30, 35 years ago. im trying to think. im 47. a long time ago. >> all those things it took a long time to learn. how not to carry criticism around with us, how to be able to risk a little bit more and fail a bit more. wouldnt it be great if those wome...

Deeper. the result is the confidence code, and the research has important implications for men and women. claire, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> so your book certainly really speaks to me. this is something i struggle with a lot, and was somewhat comforted to learn from your book that women like christine, the head of the imf also struggles with this. you have a quote where she says i would often get nervous about presentations or speaking, and there were moments...

Competence. thats just one of the findings laid out in the new book called "the confidence code." joining me now the woman behind the book and katy kay. >> he guess that at home from me so thats fine. >> well get that out of the way. it takes a confident woman to be married to jay carney. whats the biggest finding. >> there were two. one theres a confidence gap between men and women and the data is all there and we need to get over it because the other thing we found as you just suggested when i...

Well never reach the next level. joining me now is katty kay and abc news contributor claire shipman, co-authors of "the confidence code." claire and katty, it defies logic, im sure youre tired of being asked this question that either of you lack confidence. given how articulate and intelligent you are. i want specific examples for all women out there listening saying no way do these women suffer from lack of confident, katty. you start. >> okay. ill jump in. the other day i did something that w...

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Thats just one of the findings laid out in the new book called "the confidence code." joining me now the woman behind the book. thank you both for being here. claire happens to be married to jay carney, so im sorry for ripping on him at the beginning of the show. >> well get that out of the way. it takes a confident woman to be married to jay carney. whats the biggest finding in your book? >> there were two. one theres a confidence gap between men and women and the data is all there and we need ...

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Time is dont say youre sorry. youre not sorry. have the confidence to go with what you believe in. talk about the confidence code. >> thats where the idea of writing this book came from. we would interview all these women around the country in politics, business, the military. women you expected to be brimming with confidence. we kept coming across phrases like, i was just in the right place at the right time. actually what we found was wells of self-doubt among women. so we started to look into...