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Preventing the Work/Life Collision
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The next generation of women want a career and a life, but they don’t know how to get both. Having watched the boomer generation, they know they don’t want their options: sacrificing family life for high powered careers or consigning themselves to the ‘mommy track'. Not Your Mother's Life shows how today’s young women are uniquely poised to reach out and take—or create—the work-life balance that proved so elusive for the boomers. The key, Peters argues, is for women to use their newfound economic power to choose their lives instead of letting their lives choose them. Not only can they decide on the career, the company, and the workday they want, they can choose a spouse who shares their goals and will shape their relationship to support them. Pie in the sky? Not at all. Changing the Rules of Work, Love, and family
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With consciousness, confidence and marketplace
savvy, women can all design lives they want.
Peters introduces readers to women in varied walks of life who
have done exactly this: an attorney who chose her work and her husband
according to her values rather than her vanity, passing up the plum
position for a law firm where she could design her work in her very
singular way; a journalist who came into her own (winning a prestigious
award) after trading a critical egocentric man for a “cruelty free
relationship” with a partner who delights in her and her work. Full of real-life examples of women who are doing
it their own way, Not Your
Mother's Life offers this new generation a vision of how to remake
the work world according to their own needs—ultimately benefiting
women and men. Joan K. Peters is the author of When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Ourselves.
Her articles and reviews have appeared in The
New York Times, Ms., Family Life, Cosmopolitan, and The
Nation. Peters has
taught literature and women's studies at Middlebury College, The City
College of New York, Douglass College, and creative writing at Sarah
Lawrence College. She lives in Ojai, California with her husband and daughter. Perseus
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