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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 woman's 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, it's got to stop. >> it's huge. >> a great graduation gift, the book is "the confidence code." tha...

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 we've 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. >> let's put it out there. we are three relatively successive women and katy anchor and correspondent and clair, anchor and correspondent, from a white house correspondent, i've done all of this stuff too. i think all three of us would agree that we lack in conf...

Female empowerment. >> "the confidence code" looks at how to fix the gaps in the workplace. i'm 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. i'm trying to think. i'm 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. wouldn't it be great if those women who are leaving college now recognized the real rules of the workforce, the rules change. >> h...

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 when i had to screw up my courage to raise my hand or make a point rather than hanging back. this i...

Competence. that's 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 that's fine. >> we'll get that out of the way. it takes a confident woman to be married to jay carney. what's the biggest finding. >> there were two. one there's 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 it comes to success you need confidence more than you need competence. for many women that's a w...