The eldest daughter effect : how firstborn women -- like Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyoncé -- harness their strengths

Firstborns Lisette Schuitemaker and Wies Enthoven set out to discover the big five qualities that characterize all eldest daughters to some degree. Eldest daughters are responsible, dutiful, thoughtful, expeditious and caring. Firstborns are more intelligent than their siblings, more proficient verbally and more motivated to perform. Yet at the same time they seriously doubt that they are good enough. Being an eldest daughter can have certain adv...