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BookNotes is your monthly guide to good, informative
reading. Each month BookNotes will feature the Editor's choice of titles.
This month our Editor has selected these books on balancing a career
and home life for mothers.
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A Mother's Place: Choosing Work and
Family Without Guilt or Blame
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Author:
Susan Chira |
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Mothers today are under siege. Society
belittles mothers at home while telling mothers at
work they are blighting their children's lives. Susan
Chira, a veteran New York Times journalist, separates
myth from reality, showing how the media, the courts,
and politicians have conducted a backlash against
working mothers that hurts all women. Here, she reviews
the latest scientific research and shows, contrary
to popular belief, that children of working mothers
turn out just as well as those raised by stay-at-home
mothers. But instead of telling mothers where their
place should be, Chira wants to reframe this distorted
debate and help mothers get where they want to be,
whether at home or at work.
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When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children
Without Sacrificing Our Selves
Publisher:
Perseus Publishing
Author:
Joan K. Peters |
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| Must mothers today be torn by the conflict
between work and family? Drawing upon real-life stories,
contemporary psychology, and social trends, author Joan
K. Peters offers a complex and convincing portrait of
the ways women and children prosper when old ideas of
mothering are left behind. Also, she offers practical,
hands-on strategies for mothers struggling to balance
work, family, and self.* |
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Working Mothers 101: How to Organize Your Life, Your
Children, and Your Career to Stop Feeling Guilty and
Start Enjoying It All
Publisher:
Author:
Katherine Wyse Goldman |
Motherhood comes naturally.Working motherhood
doesn't.
Here's where you'll learn everything you need to
get your life in order:
How to create a home where people actually hang up
their jackets;What to do with all those indispensable
spelling tests and toddler works of art; How to decide
which type of child care is best for you at any given
moment; How to sort out the times you really have
to be at your child's school; How a time-crazed mother
can make, keep and entertain friends; How to sign
up for and transport children to after-school activities,
sports, music lessons and play dates when you can't
be at any of them; What to tell your boss when you
don't want to travel so much; The lost art of raising
respectful children; The best way to date your husband;
The first rule of convenience for birthday parties;
Eleven ways to take care of yourself without taking
any extra time; And, finally, delegating responsibilities
you thought were yours and yours alone
This practical strategy is for the millions of working
mothers struggling to make it all work.Don't let your
guilt slow you down. Katherine Wyse Goldman interviewed
hundreds of mothers to come up with the tips, plans
of action and decisions that have worked for career
women around the country. Here's everything you need
when you want to get control of your time, your life
and your future. Here's how to make your home run
as smoothly as a Fortune 500 corporation.
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Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest
for Children
Publisher:
Talk Miramax Books
Author:
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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From Publishers Weekly
"Between a third and a half of all high-achieving
women in America do not have children" and "the
vast majority yearn" for them, says Hewlett, founder
of the National Parenting Association. In this study
of baby lust, Hewlett portrays the anguished hand-wringing
by middle-aged women who were career-obsessed throughout
their 20s and 30s, only to wake up single at 40, biological
clocks all petered out. Infertility treatment is not
a solution, she says; it's expensive, dangerous to women's
health and unlikely to produce a pregnancy, much less
a live, healthy baby. Moms and potential moms from playwright
Wendy Wasserstein to a 46-year-old single woman who
traveled to China to adopt illustrate Hewlett's thesis
that "some of the most heartfelt struggles of the
breakthrough generation have centered on the attempt
to snatch a child from the jaws of menopause. A few
succeed; most do not." Hewlett attests that "if
high-altitude careers inevitably exact a price, it's
profoundly unfair that the highest prices... are paid
by women." "Self-indulgent" women might
try to have a child and a career by hiring a nanny,
but for Hewlett, it's more "courageous" for
a woman to forgo childbearing if a career is her real
goal. Hewlett's advice to young women is strangely retro:
get married you'll be happier and healthier. She counsels
them to give "urgent priority" to finding
a marriage partner fast, "have your first baby
before 35" and look for work at a family-friendly
corporation. Though ardently argued, her case is unconvincing.
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