It can be difficult to shake the habits of being a good girl: pleasing others, thinking of them before oneself, working hard and not complaining. For women to go from being good girls to good lawyers, they need to become aware of how their environments shape them and what the consequences can be of being too good.
My parents, the quintessential Depression-era kids, had certain expectations: hard work, good morals and pinched pennies. My mother was a homemaker. My father worked with grease under his fingernails; he drove a beat-up truck all over Los Angeles to fix commercial refrigeration.
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