A Mother's Place: Choosing Work and Family Without Guilt or Blame - Softcover

Chira, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060930241 ISBN 13: 9780060930240

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

A well-known New York Times journalist demonstrates how women can ignore the two extremes of conventional wisdom in regard to working women and strike a personal balance that best suits their own family between work in and out of the home. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Amazon.com description: Product Description: Mothers today are under siege. Society belittles mothers at home while telling mothers at work they are blighting their children`s lives. Susan Chira, a veteran New York Times journalist, separates myth from reality, showing how the media, the courts, and politicians have conducted a backlash against working mothers that hurts all women. Here, she reviews the latest scientific research and shows, contrary to popular belief, that children of working mothers turn out just as well as those raised by stay-at-home mothers. But instead of telling mothers where their place should be, Chira wants to reframe this distorted debate and help mothers get where they want to be, whether at home or at work

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Review:

"Important and well-reasoned book. Working mothers could not ask for a better companion."-- "New York Times""Chira has elevated the debate...An ambitious book, clearly intended to retire the field and enable working mothers to get on with it."-- "Los Angeles Times""A hand-holder for all those mothers who see themselves labeled as selfish and unearing because they choose to bring home the paycheck."-- "Kirkus Reviews""A passionate defense of working mothers."-- "Parenting""A controversial work. You cannot read it without thinking. And thinking...At the very least, Chira has done something heroic by really analyzing the issue."-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"

From the Back Cover:

Mothers today are under siege. Society belittles mothers at home while telling mothers at work they are blighting their children's lives. Susan Chira, a veteran New York Times journalist, separates myth from reality, showing how the media, the courts, and politicians have conducted a backlash against working mothers that hurts all women. Here, she reviews the latest scientific research and shows, contrary to popular belief, that children of working mothers turn out just as well as those raised by stay-at-home mothers. But instead of telling mothers where their place should be, Chira wants to reframe this distorted debate and help mothers get where they want to be, whether at home or at work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060930241
• ISBN 13: 9780060930240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336