This book is supposedly written as a means to encourage girls to grow up to be women who want to lead things...and is based on the premise that if only our society invested more energy in convincing girls to go against what for many are their natural inclinations, all would be right with the world. Regardless of whether you agree with the premise or not, the fact is that this book is poorly written, poorly argued, illogical, full of thinly veiled misandry, appeals to emotion, and seems to completely fail to realize the irony in proclaiming that women are just as good as men...if only society will brainwash them into acting like men. If you already believe strongly that women ought to run the planet, then you probably will overlook all of this. But if you are generally unbiased and simply want to pick this book up to see what all the fuss is about...beware, you will wish you hadn't. Not even John Stewart tonight could conceal his revulsion in having to listen to this harpy for less than 10 minutes.