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Beside Every Successful Man
Megan Basham
A Woman's Guide to Having It All
Crown
September 2008
On Sale: September 16, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 0307393631 EAN: 9780307393630 Hardcover
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“There is a reason this book is titled beside every
successful man rather than behind him. It is about taking
the best part of the progress women have made and combining
it with age-old wisdom to create a more satisfying future
for both you and your husband. The wives who were the models
for this book are not put-upon ‘little women.’ They didn’t
abandon their own ambitions and desires by helping their
husbands achieve theirs. They fulfilled them. Their service
isn’t the same thing as subservience—they stand beside their
husbands as equal partners. . . . This book is about real
women who practiced simple though sometimes challenging
principles to help their husbands achieve results that
benefited their entire family. . . . What you’re about to
read won’t tell you what you should want. It will tell you
how to get what you do want.â€
—from the author’s introduction to Beside Every Successful Man “Stay-at-home wife� “Stay-at-home mom� In our parents’
day, those labels were either proudly worn or grudgingly
accepted, but to nearly everyone they meant the same thing:
a woman whose lifestyle involved running the household,
preparing the meals, and tending to her husband and kids. What has happened since? Station wagons have yielded to
sport-utility hybrids, technology has arrived with a myriad
of new ways to stay connected, and a new army of educated,
highly skilled women has reinvented—and reembraced—“stay at
home.†Today’s female “stay-at-homer†tends to be much more highly
educated and work-credentialed, which opens up exciting
possibilities, chief among them the opportunity to be her
husband’s most important career partner, mentoring and
advising him to reach a level of success he wouldn’t achieve
otherwise.
The unexpected dividends? Here, journalist and researcher
Megan Basham persuasively argues that those who choose home
as “command central†can expect a stronger marriage, but
also—eventually—a higher income. Ironically, passing up that
second paycheck frees up time to guide your husband to the
kinds of professional triumphs that are money multipliers,
creating long-sought financial freedom for your family. Far from being homemaking June Cleavers, the women Basham
investigates are firebrands, with skills ranging from public
relations and accounting to executive decision-making. Many
have pedigreed educations. While they were in the working
world, what these women longed for was not a life of
lunching and spa days but, rather, time to reflect and the
comfort of being part of a joint family mission. For these
trust-their-gut women searching for intellectual
satisfaction and serenity, the answer was to help their
husbands achieve a professional dream. To show how it is possible to “have it all,†Basham profiles
a wide range of wives, not just those whose husbands (like
former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos) have risen to national prominence, but those whose
husbands have triumphed outside the limelight. Each of these
women, it turns out, has led a richly satisfying life—partly
achieved by assuring her husband’s success. One of the most provocative and convincing books ever
written on the topic of women and work—a manual that, with
its precise tips, will speed women toward the balance they
seek—Beside Every Successful Man doesn’t just tell women
what to do, it shows them how in a way that is inspirational.
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