DEEP DIVE: Dr. Jo-Ann Finkelstein on Raising Resilient Girls

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In honor of Women's History Month, this "Deep Dive" series highlights some of our past interview episodes about raising daughters. How do we raise our daughters to feel empowered, rather than helpless, in the face of gender bias? ⁠Dr. Jo-Ann Finkelstein⁠, PhD, author of book ⁠SEXISM AND SENSIBILITY⁠, offers parenting tips to prepare our girls for the modern world. Dr. Finkelstein, Amy, and Margaret discuss: The limits of the "girl power" line of thinking How to teach girls what is and isn't in their control when it comes to sexism How to recognize and combat sexism in our own parenting Here's where you can find Dr. Finkelstein: ⁠www.joannfinkelstein.com⁠ @joannfinkelstein.phd on IG/TikTok Jo-Ann Finkelstein, PhD - Author on FB @finkeljo on Twitter Buy SEXISM AND SENSIBILITY: ⁠https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593581162⁠ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, sexism and sensibility, raising girls, feminist parenting, everyday sexism, end sexism, gender equality matters, smash the patriarchy, double standards, girl power, body positive, parenting teens, teen health, equal partnership, respect women, teen mental health matters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	Hello everyone. Welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell? Laughing in the Face of Mother.
0:37.1	This is Margaret.
0:38.3	And this is Amy.
0:39.2	Today we're talking to Dr. Joanne Finkelstein.
0:42.2	She is a clinical psychologist educated at Harvard and Northwestern University, an expert
0:46.9	blogger for psychology today.
0:48.7	Dr. Finkelstein's work has been highlighted in the New York Times, the Harvard Business
0:52.5	Review, the Atlantic, and many other
0:54.9	publications. Today, we're going to be talking about Dr. Finkelstein's new book, sexism, and
1:00.8	sensibility, raising empowered, resilient girls in the modern world. Welcome, Dr. Finkelstein.
1:07.3	It's so great to be here. So you start this book with a story that in the particular was yours,
1:14.4	but in the general, I thought, oh, I've had this moment too. And I think many listeners of this
1:18.1	podcast will recognize it themselves, that you as a girl encountered something that seemed
1:23.5	unfair to you, but hey, why are things that way? They shouldn't be that way. And you
1:27.9	ask your mom about it. And almost immediately you get the sense that this is something that you're
1:32.9	apparently not supposed to feel or at least talk about. So you tell us about that moment and what
1:38.1	you learned from that moment. Yeah, I was around eight years old and I was baking brownies, I think, with my mother in the kitchen.
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