Women and the Work/Family Dilemma: How Today's Professional Women Are Confronting the Maternal Wall

by Deborah J. Swiss, Judith P. Walker

Based on a ten-year, in-depth survey of 900 women graduates from Harvard's professional schools, it defines in honest and realistic terms how today's working mothers are leading their lives. Reinvents work and family life, offering indispensable advice for those who want to prove themselves at work and also be part of their children's lives.

255 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 1993

About the author

Deborah Swiss is the author of The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women, and several other non-fiction books. Her latest project started with a chance meeting in a post office in Launceston, Tasmania in 2004. Tasmanian artist Christina Henri, whose work honors the female transports, happened to be in the same line and began to tell a story that led to six and a half years of research. The Tin Ticket explores the forgotten history of 25,000 women who were transported as “tamers and breeders” to Australian colonies in the early nineteenth century. It’s a story about the triumph of the human spirit told through the lives of three remarkable survivors. The book trailer features interviews with convict descendants: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpVP6w...

Reviews

[Sharon Orlopp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published in 1993. Read in 1993. Capturing books on my bookshelves.

[Amaranta · Rating 3 out of 5]

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