Ambition Redefined

Ambition Redefined is a timely alternative to current women's business books that define professional success as climbing the corporate ladder In fact, this is not a path that all women want or should feel pressured to follow. Sollman's focus is on the more critical and widespread workplace issue for everyday women - to always work in a way that fits their life alongside the two major caregiving roles: for children and aging parents.

Sollman debunks common assumptions such as:

UNLESS THE SALARY IS HIGH. Women must abandon career goals, leave the workforce and sacrifice critical earning power to care for children or elderly parents. This is simply not true There's no law that says women have to be in high profile roles to be professionally fulfilled, care for family, and establish financial solid ground.

FINDING FLEXIBLE WORK IS IMPOSSIBLE. Flexibility makes it possible for more women to participate consistently in the workforce alongside the two major caregiving roles. Sollman shines a bright light on the ever-widening world of flexwork-where women can find many interesting and exciting ways to tuck all generations of their families into a future that is financially secure and safe. The book includes realistic, practical tools for preparing for and finding flexible work within a current job or a new opportunity.

IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME. Divorce, death of a spouse, caring for aging parents or adult children are inevitable realities that women face today. Kathryn shows women how to prepare for these life surprises and provides guidance for earning, saving, and investing toward a long and comfortable retirement.

WORK ENDS AT AGE 65. Women who leave the workforce and want to return in their fifties or even sixties will be in good company as the ranks of older workers rise. Over the next two decades, adults age 50and over will have greater rates of workforce participation into their sixth and seventh decades.