Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family, and Career
Autor Laraine T. Zappert Ph.D.en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2002
Leading Stanford University psychologist Dr. Laraine Zappert draws upon her twenty years of clinical and research experience to answer these questions and create a road map of innovative solutions. Through her findings from a landmark study of more than three hundred female graduates of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Dr. Zappert addresses such critical concerns as:
- choosing between career and family
- handling the job stress and the demands of parenting
- the best time to have children -- and what effect they'll have on a career
- keeping relationships healthy
- feeling confident about the decision to tackle the challenges of home and work.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780671041816
ISBN-10: 0671041819
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: ATRIA
Colecția Atria Books
ISBN-10: 0671041819
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: ATRIA
Colecția Atria Books
Notă biografică
Laraine T. Zappert, Ph.D., is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Zappert is the founder and director of the Women?s Group Program at Stanford?s Graduate Schools of Business, Law, Medicine, and Engineering, and serves as director of the university?s Sexual Harassment Policy Office. Visit her Web site at www.drzappert.com.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Stanford Survey
Part I Professional Women and Children
Chapter 2 Is Having Children the Right Decision for Professional Women?
Experience: What Professional Women Say About the Decision
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Five Steps to Making the Decision
Chapter 3 Are Professional Women Good Mothers?
Experience: What Are the Priorities of Professional Women?
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Taking a Parenting Reality Check
Chapter 4 Is Guilt the Cost of Doing (or Not Doing) Business?
Experience: Professional Women and Guilt
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Eight-Step Plan for Dealing with Guilt
Part II Children and Careers
Chapter 5 Do Professional Women Have to Choose Between
Career Success and Having a Family?
Experience: How Professional Women View Their Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Seven-Point Strategy for Enhancing Options
Chapter 6 Now, Later, or Never: Is There a Right Time in a Career to Have Children?
Experience: What Professional Women Say About Timing
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Deciding on Timing
Chapter 7 So Who's Doing It Right Anyway?
To Work or Not
Experience: What Professional Women Say About Working and Having Children
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Three Strategies for "Getting It Right"
Chapter 8 If I Work, What's the Best Way to Do It?
Experience: Evaluating Work Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Finding What Works
Chapter 9 Once I Have Children, What Do I Do with Them?
The Best Child Care for Professional Women
Experience: How Professional Women Rate Child-Care Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Securing the Right Child Care
Part III Children, Careers, Relationships, and You
Chapter 10 The Right Partner
Experience: Attributes of the Right Partner for a Professional Woman
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Relationship
Chapter 11 Okay, So What Are the Essentials of a Successful Life?
Experience: What Matters to Professional Women and Why
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Assessing the Essentials
Chapter 12 Balancing the Equation
Experience: Pulling It All Together
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Balancing the Personal-Professional Equation
A Final Note
Recenzii
Business Times (New Haven, CT) The insights, advice and strategies found in Getting It Right will help you make smarter, more informed decisions for creating a satisfying and fulfilling lifestyle on every level.
Publishers Weekly [A] well-organized and optimistic book.
Publishers Weekly [A] well-organized and optimistic book.