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Getting it Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family, and Career (Hardcover)

by Laraine T. Zappert (Author) "I've always been pretty much able to accomplish whatever I've set my sights on..." (more)
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A clinical psychologist and working mother, Laraine Zappert interviewed 300 Stanford University Business School graduates to prepare her well-organized and optimistic book, Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family, and Career. Offering hard-won insights from women who've faced down these issues, she guides readers through decisions about such crucial issues as timing the birth of their children, allocating housework, evaluating various work arrangements and lining up support. Her time-tested solutions for creating a healthy balance between work and home require effort and dedication, though there is much to be gained from them.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.



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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Atria; 1st edition (February 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671041800
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671041809
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,654,449 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinarily helpful book!, March 14, 2001
By Ellen T. Murphy (Lowell, MA United States) - See all my reviews
Getting it Right offered me exactly what I was looking for at just the right time. It gave me insights into what other career-minded mothers who strive for better balance in their lives are going through. The book combines research findings and helpful step by step guides and self-help questionnaires that gave me a great new perspective. Best of all it gave real, hard, current figures about Stanford women MBA's in the workplace. I was amazed to read that 47% are working part time. This is the fifth book I've bought and read in hopes that I would be able to resolve my conflicting feelings about work and raising children. And unlike so many of the books about getting it right with respect to family and work this book has absolutely no religious slant. Thank God. Real research and really insightful ways to analyze your current desires and needs as they relate to balance. I highly recommend this one!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Getting it Right, July 26, 2004
In this book, Lorraine Zappert has provided a comprehensive analysis of mother's role in the workplace. Through quantitative research with hundreds of women who have received their MBA's from Stanford University, Zappert provides both research-informed analysis and vignettes from mothers who have made a wide range of choices as applied to child bearing and raising. The book contains both useful tips and items to ponder when making important decisions concerning career paths.

My biggest complaint about this book was that it sometimes drifted into the area of fantasy for most working mothers. Understandably, the research focused upon moms with a very high income potential, but professionals come in many career areas and have a wide range of incomes, and many cannot afford the type of "solutions" suggested by the book, such as a full-time, live-in nanny.

However, I do feel that the book provided very useful information and is an important resource.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not quite what I was looking for, March 21, 2005
By Haight Peterson (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
I liked this book, but I guess I was looking for something more. I was hoping for a few more suggestions on how to be a successful working mother. The biggest thing that I took from this book are that there are advantages and disadvantages to every role that you can have as a mom. (Working mothers sometimes feel that they aren't parenting enough, stay at home moms sometimes feel isolated, and moms who work part time sometimes feel like they aren't doing either thing well).

I thought that it was interesting, but I guess that it just reinforces that trying to balance work and family is something that still generates a lot more questions than it does answers.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new here....
Zappert's survey-based research provides no new insights or solutions for working moms. Basically, it's "work or don't as you feel comfortable, and outsource as many... Read more
Published on November 15, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for professional moms.
This book came at a perfect time when I was feeling conflictual about can I be a good manager and professional and still be a good mom. Read more
Published on April 20, 2001

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