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How The Rise Of Working Women Has Created A Far Less Equal World
Crown
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 0307590402
EAN: 9780307590404
Kindle: B00C8S9UUI
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Non-Fiction
Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers
a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite,
and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and
the consequences of their difficult choices.
The
gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history,
tens of millions of women are spending more time at the
boardroom table than the kitchen table. These professional
women are highly ambitious and highly educated, enjoying the
same lifestyle prerogatives as their male counterparts. They
are working longer and marrying later—if they marry at all.
They are heading Fortune 500 companies and appearing on the
covers of Forbes and Businessweek. They
represent a special type of working woman—the kind who
doesn’t just punch a clock for a paycheck, but derives
self-worth and pleasure from wielding professional
power.
At the same time that the gender gap is
narrowing, the gulf is widening among women themselves.
While blockbuster books such as Lean In focus only on
women in high pressure jobs, in reality there are four women
in traditionally female roles for every Sheryl Sandberg. In
this revealing and deeply intelligent book, Alison Wolf
examines why more educated women work longer hours, why
having children early is a good idea, and how feminism
created a less equal world. Her ideas are sure to provoke
and surprise, as she challenges much of what the liberal and
conservative media consider to be women’s best interests.
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