Get to Work: . . . And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late
by Linda R. Hirshman
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Read in August, 2007
Hirshman makes a good argument that feminists are failing the movement by dropping out of the career world to stay home with their children. She provides a lot of anecdotal and blogosphere evidence that the female elite -- women who worked hard and excelled at Ivy League schools, got graduate degrees, and worked their way up the corporate ladder -- have a responsibility to advance the status of women in the workplace by sticking it out after they become mothers, and that their education and ambi...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Sara Hollidayrecommends it for: All Women!
Hirshman hypothesises about the pitfalls of "Choice Femism" or the "Opt-Out Revolution" in which women go to school, are trained to do great things and end up giving up their careers for the life of housework while their husbands continue to work. At first, it's hard to agree with her, because how can you argue with the value of a family, but then it got me thinking: Why is it assumed to be the woman's job to drop out to care for the children? That doesn't seem fair at all! N...more
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Read in July, 2008
This short manifesto made me re-evaluate how I think. One of the points from the "strategic plan to get to work" that the book laid out seemed meant for me -
"Never know when you are out of milk."
I feel that my husband I have a pretty 50/50 relationship when it comes to household duties. Still I always feel some how that I am doing more around the house. This book helped me realize perhaps why I feel that way.
Overall a quick interesting read that I would recommend to
"Never know when you are out of milk."
I feel that my husband I have a pretty 50/50 relationship when it comes to household duties. Still I always feel some how that I am doing more around the house. This book helped me realize perhaps why I feel that way.
Overall a quick interesting read that I would recommend to
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Read in January, 2008
This book was long on rhetoric but short on solutions. While I agree with some of her basic premises (women should work outside the home, they shouldn't get majors in things that are completely unmarketable, and they shouldn't do more than their fair share of work at home), the book was kind of boring and just not compelling. She also does more guilt tripping and "my feminism is better than your feminism" stuff than was needed.
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
feminists, working mothers
Although this book is even too radical for my tastes, she does not waiver on her belief that too many educated women are staying at home. She finds many unique arguments to back up her belief and she gives working mothers some confidence and pride. She will offend everyone- liberals and conservatives alike- but she gives us a different point of view that's worth listening to.
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Read in January, 2006
Infuriating and also insightful, everything a good book should be. It will either make you cheer or want to pull Hirshman's hair out, but very entertaining.
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