Peggy Orenstein (born November 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the author of the New York Times best-sellers Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, a memoir.Previous books include, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, in 2012 she was named by The Columbia Journalism Review as one of its "40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years".
... girls have more of a tendency, whether they're affluent or poor, whether they are successful or unsuccessful in school, to internalize failure, to think it's their fault that they fail. Boys blame the problem: 'Math is stupid.' Girls think: 'I'm not very smart.' And then they drop [out].
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In 1997, at the age of 35, Orenstein was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Attended Oberlin College where she earned a B.A. degree in 1983. Then she moved to New York City, where she worked as an associate editor at "Esquire," later acquiring senior editing positions at "Manhattan, Inc." and "7 Days." In 1988, she became managing editor of "Mother Jones" in San Francisco. In 1991 Peggy began working as a writer and producer at Farallon Films.
Producer
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Year
Status
Character
The Lisa Theory
1994
executive producer
Thanks
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Year
Status
Character
Kids of Survival
1996
Documentary additional thanks
Self
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Year
Status
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WGN Morning News
2016
TV Series
Herself
CBS This Morning
2016
TV Series
Herself - Author, Girls & Sex
Today
2011
TV Series
Herself
Crumb
1994
Documentary
Herself
Known for movies
Crumb (1994) as Herself
The Lisa Theory (1994) as Producer
CBS This Morning (2016) as Herself - Author, Girls & Sex
$800,000
