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Are We Giving Up Too Much?
Voice
April 2007
On Sale: April 3, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 1401303064
EAN: 9781401303068
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Women are constantly being told that it's simply too
difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't
really "have to" work, it's better for their families if
they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts
says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood
fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the
unexpected toll of giving it up. It's time, she says, to get
the message across -- combining work and family really is
the best choice for most women, and it's eminently doable. Bennetts and millions of other working women provide ample
proof that there are many different ways to have kids,
maintain a challenging career, and have a richly rewarding
life as a result. Earning money and being successful not
only make women feel great, but when women sacrifice their
financial autonomy by quitting their jobs, they become
vulnerable to divorce as well as the potential illness,
death, or unemployment of their breadwinner husbands.
Further, they forfeit the intellectual, emotional,
psychological, and even medical benefits of self-sufficiency. The truth is that when women gamble on dependancy, most
eventually end up on the wrong side of the odds. In riveting
interviews with women from a wide range of backgrounds,
Bennetts tells their dramatic stories -- some triumphant,
others heartbreaking. The Feminine Mistake will inspire women to accept the
challenge of figuring out who they are and what they want to
do with their lives in addition to raising children. Not
since Betty Friedan has anyone offered such an eye-opening
and persuasive argument for why women can -- and should --
embrace the joyously complex lives they deserve.
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