Ask Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani for her tech ecosystem dream scenario and she’ll describe droves of young women going confidently after their ideal jobs, being interviewed by a diverse hiring committee and joining truly inclusive companies.

Saujani, whose New York-based coding education nonprofit has reached 90,000 girls in 50 states since 2012, says the path toward that new normal starts with a shift in gender norms. To be successful, the shift needs to start early.

“I think a lot of the structure around young girls have basically encouraged perfectionism among young girls,” Saujani said. “From a young age we teach them to smile, to be nice and say their thank you’s, while we allow young boys to just crawl atop the monkey bars and jump right off.”

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