New year is always
a good time to look for ideas, new perspectives and revaluate. This is a good
book to share with women in your life, especially if they are struggling to
find their path, attempting to figure out their career, relationship, children,
volunteerism & other passions. I thought that this book was helpful, because
it is honest, thoughtful and encouraging. I loved the humor and self
deprecation combined with truth telling from their group of friends.
A big idea
self-help book about the decisions that shape women's lives, in the vein of
Designing Your Life.
What happens to
women's ambition in the years after college? The essays which were the catalyst
for this book began as a series for the Atlantic, a project between two friends
who had attended Northwestern University together in the early 1990s. What
became of all the brilliant, hardworking women from their college days, they
wondered as they shared work and family woes and triumphs over a glass of wine
one evening.
What did life look
like for other midcareer, midlife women? The data Schank and Wallace culled
from the group of women they interviewed--over forty of them in all--revealed a
surprisingly clear road map, with consistencies and pitfalls the authors hadn't
expected to find. The women fell into one of three categories: high achievers,
those who were scaling back, and those who'd opted out. But, most important, no
one woman stuck to a single track in the twenty-five years since graduation.
Our culture and the popular media might seek to pin women into boxes, but real
life is in fact more fluid. Those common moments of transition, crisis, and
achievement reaped rich insights and strategies.
Tackling topics
like the changing meaning of ambition, the near-lethal combination of modern
parenting and a 24/7 work culture, and what sexism in the workplace does and
doesn't look like, the issues here are perennially topical. A love letter to a
new generation of working women or anyone at a crossroads, from women who set
out to rule the world and stumbled into various permutations of their best
lives, The Ambition Decisions pinpoints the variables that push women toward
making big decisions, and make those decisions easier”
Have you guys read it?
