How Jane Won - Hardcover

Rimm, Sylvia; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609607588 ISBN 13: 9780609607589

Publisher: Crown Publications, 2001

Synopsis

More than fifty successful women share the secrets of how they got to where they are as they speak out on the value of personal accomplishment and describe the choices, crises, mentors, opportunities, challenges, and other steps that they encountered on the road to fulfillment. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

In How Jane Won, Dr. Sylvia Rimmer lets more than 50 women, in their own words, tell the stories about how they got to where they are. Among the women are plenty of household names - including Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Florence Henderson, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Space Shuttle commander Eileen Collins and astronaut Cady Coleman, Harry Potter artist Mary GrandPre and novelist Jacqueline Mitchard. But there are also women you've never heard of - scientists, teachers, artists and homemakers - who are every bit as successful. To learn how these women earned, struggled and lucked their way to the top is both fun and inspiring. Significantly, success in How Jane Won is not narrowly defined. A sense of happiness and satisfaction is just as important as a six-figure paycheck or fancy title. Any doubt about this is dispelled by Lisa Taylor's account of why she loves being an elementary school teacher or Roberta Baldwin's sonnet to the virtues of volunteering. The lessons here are not step-by-step blueprints; they're guidelines for real life - such as publisher Phylis Grann talking about letting Mom buy some of your wardrobe.

Over and over, the life lessons emerge: be willing to fail; don't be afraid to be the smart girl; if a mentor offers a hand, take it; nurture your passion and remember that the path between points A and B is seldom a straight line. Sometimes the first step to success is believing it's possible. How Jane Won erases all doubt.

About the Author:

Dr. Sylvia Rimm is the bestselling author of See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women, How to Parent So Children Will Learn, and many other books. She is also director of the Family Achievement Clinic and a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is a contributing correspondent to NBC's Today show, host of Family Talk with Sylvia Rimm on public radio, and the author of a syndicated newspaper column on parenting.

Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville with her husband. They have a son and are expecting their second child soon.

For more information, see Dr. Sylvia Rimm's website at www.seejanewin.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609607588
• ISBN 13: 9780609607589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356