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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. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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DR. SYLVIA RIMM, 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, is the 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, the 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 a daughter.
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y-five of today s most successful women get to where they are?
In her New York Times bestseller, See Jane Win, noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm and her daughters reported on their three-year survey of 1,000 successful women, distilling their findings for parents to use to give their daughters the same advantages. In this companion volume, How Jane Won, Dr. Rimm and her daughter Sara Rimm-Kaufman present the unique stories of fifty-five true winners, in their own words, breathing life into the principles laid out in See Jane Win and animating the many forms success can take.
Find out how Justice Sandra Day O Connor, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine hitman, space shuttle commander Eileen Collins, Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPré, novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard, and many others, famous or not, juggled their education and families, parenting and careers. These women offer a bracing
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