When Work Doesnt Work An - Hardcover

A critical look at the effect of careerism on women's lives, based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, exposes the costs exacted by the workplace and offers a plan for women to reclaim their identity and redefine success. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

en who work, the workplace no longer offers the satisfaction and challenge it once did.  Committed to careers they frequently have spent years building -- careers that generally go to the very core of their self-definitions -- these women find that they are becoming less fulfilled and more exhausted.  Their lives are out of balance; a happy mix of personal and professional, spiritual and material eludes them.  In an era that celebrates women "having it all" they are finding that they don't -- and, sadly, coming to the conclusion that they are somehow at fault.

The fact is, there is nothing wrong with today's working women.  There is something wrong with today's work culture.  Immersed in a structure designed for a different generation of men who had wives at home to take care of life outside the office, today's working woman struggles to meet two opposing sets of demands and expectations -- professional and personal -- and two op