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- catalog abstract ""Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the acclaimed author of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children, tackles one of the most wrenching challenges for women today - creating rich multidimensional lives that contain both career and children." "Almost half of all professional women are childless at age forty. The more a woman succeeds in her career, the less likely it is that she will have a partner or a baby. For men the opposite is true: the more successful a man is professionally, the more likely it is that he will be married with children." "Hewlett brings to the book her substantial expertise as a policy analyst and her own difficult experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. Combining poignant and compelling portraits of women's lives with a groundbreaking survey commissioned specifically for this book, she gives voice to women's hopes and anguish and unearths stunning new information. For example, 42 percent of women in corporate America are childless at age forty (compared to 25 percent of men), but only 14 percent planned to be. Hewlett's research reveals a host of circumstances that have conspired to produce brutal trade-offs in the lives of professional women: America's long-hours corporate culture, a stubbornly traditional division of labor at home, and a fertility industry that lulls women into a false sense that they can get pregnant deep into middle age."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12476753.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the acclaimed author of When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children, tackles one of the most wrenching challenges for women today - creating rich multidimensional lives that contain both career and children." "Almost half of all professional women are childless at age forty. The more a woman succeeds in her career, the less likely it is that she will have a partner or a baby. For men the opposite is true: the more successful a man is professionally, the more likely it is that he will be married with children." "Hewlett brings to the book her substantial expertise as a policy analyst and her own difficult experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. Combining poignant and compelling portraits of women's lives with a groundbreaking survey commissioned specifically for this book, she gives voice to women's hopes and anguish and unearths stunning new information. For example, 42 percent of women in corporate America are childless at age forty (compared to 25 percent of men), but only 14 percent planned to be. Hewlett's research reveals a host of circumstances that have conspired to produce brutal trade-offs in the lives of professional women: America's long-hours corporate culture, a stubbornly traditional division of labor at home, and a fertility industry that lulls women into a false sense that they can get pregnant deep into middle age."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-334).".
- catalog description "pt. I. Challenges : Stories from the front lines ; The sobering facts ; High-altitude careers and the "price" of motherhood ; Predators and nurturers ; Infertility: the empty promise of high-tech reproduction -- pt. 2. Solutions : The time crunch ; Having it all.".
- catalog extent "xii, 334 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0786867663 :".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Talk Miramax Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ759.48 .H49 2002".
- catalog subject "Motherhood United States.".
- catalog subject "Older parents United States.".
- catalog subject "Sexual division of labor United States.".
- catalog subject "Successful people United States.".
- catalog subject "Women in the professions United States.".
- catalog subject "Work and family United States.".
- catalog subject "Working mothers United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Challenges : Stories from the front lines ; The sobering facts ; High-altitude careers and the "price" of motherhood ; Predators and nurturers ; Infertility: the empty promise of high-tech reproduction -- pt. 2. Solutions : The time crunch ; Having it all.".
- catalog title "Creating a life : professional women and the quest for children / Sylvia Ann Hewlett.".
- catalog type "text".