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Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career Is Good for Your Kids
Bottom of the pile
12
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Readers
7/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Lara Bazelon
Publisher:
Little, Brown Spark
Date:
April 19, 2022
Mothers have unparalleled opportunities to succeed at work while continuing to face the same societal impediments that held back our mothers and grandmothers. We still encounter entrenched gender bias in the workplace and are expected to shoulder the lion's share of labor and burdens at home while being made to feel as if we're never doing enough. All the while we're told that the perfect work-life balance is possible, if only we try hard enough to achieve it.
What The Reviewers Say
There is little that is new in Lara Bazelon’s brisk, engaging book.
Through numerous stories, she illustrates how women can redefine—and are redefining—what it means to be a working mother while achieving career success and being great mothers. This book will appeal to working women, those interested in gender studies, and young people embarking on their careers..
Bazelon rejects the idea of the self-sacrificing mother in this bold treatise.
