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Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better

Name: Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
Author: Claire Shipman
ISBN: 9780061697197

by Claire Shipman

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Overview

Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of what professional women want. Like most of us, you've had enough of the sixty-hour workweeks, the day-care dash, and the vacations that never get taken. You want to work, but on your own terms and in ways that make it possible to have a life as well.

In Womenomics, journalists Shipman and Kay provide a fresh perspective on the largely hidden power that women have in today's marketplace. Inspiring, practical, and persuasive, Womenomics offers a groundbreaking blueprint for changing the way you live and work—with advice, guidance, and fact-based support that show how you don't have to do it all to have it all.

About the Author, Claire Shipman

Claire Shipman is senior national correspondent for Good Morning America. Formerly the White House correspondent for NBC News, she has also worked at CNN, where she earned a National Headliners Award, among many other honors.

Katty Kay is the Washington correspondent for BBC World News America. She is a contributor on Meet the Press, Larry King Live, and The Chris Matthews Show, and a regular guest host for Diane Rehm on NPR.

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Editorials

Diane Sawyer

"A personal, provocative and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life."

Tina Brown

"Womenomics describes the workplace trend that finally makes it possible for women to be successful and sane at the same time. And happily, it’s a recession-friendly formula.

Daniel H. Pink

"Shipman and Kay have issued a rallying cry for women that is also a wake-up call for men. Our wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers are reshaping business as we know it. And that can make us all better off."

Lois P. Frankel

"Without wasted words, Shipman and Kay provide practical suggestions for how you can take charge of your career with courage and confidence."

Cathie Black

"Buy a copy of Womenomics for yourself, your best friend, your daughter, your star employee, and even your boss."

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"Employers should be listening to what talented women want and use this book to hold up their end of the bargain, so that the best and brightest can have both a job and a life."

Dee Dee Myers

"Every woman who’s ever been knocked off course in the quest to have the elusive ‘all’ should run out and buy this book today!"

Sheryl Sandberg

"Womenomics makes a compelling statement about the financial impact women can have in the workplace and offers valuable ideas for capitalizing on this trend, even in this economic climate."

Publishers Weekly

Want to work less but achieve more? Coauthors Shipman and Kay argue that this is possible and desirable for women who like their jobs, but are tired of logging 60-hour work weeks and sneaking out to catch their children's Christmas plays during school hours. Kay and Shipman open the audiobook themselves by reading their introduction. Both women are broadcast journalists very experienced in narration. Why, then, do these talented women surrender the rest of the book to a third party? Gabra Zackman does a credible job with the remaining chapters, but her soothing tone seems out of place, and she has to begin alternating sections by announcing which author wrote them—a problem that didn't exist in the introduction, when both authors simply read their own material. Despite strong content, the delivery falls flat. A Collins Business hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 16). (July)