A Mother’s Expert Tips on Raising Confident Daughters

When Esther Wojcicki gave birth to her third daughter Anne in 1973, her friends offered their condolences.

"There was this sort of commiseration," recalls Esther Wojcicki from her sunny home on the campus of Stanford University. "Like 'oh my god, a third girl, what are you going to do?'"

"I had a close friend who called up and said 'oh I'm so sorry,' almost like a death," she says.

Wojcicki grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community that valued sons more than daughters.