Why do we caution our daughters more than our sons, when as young children they often have the same levels of strength, the same innate capacity for taking risks? How do we break out of our own conditioning, wanting to protect girls, encouraging them to "be careful," in the same situation where we might encourage boys to be risk takers? Caroline Paul, firefighter, para-glider, and all-around brave adventurer, challenges us to explore how we can raise gutsy girls who can then become brave women.