How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women - Softcover

Rimm, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 060980720X ISBN 13: 9780609807200

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2002

Synopsis

How did fifty-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 new definition of success based not on title or paycheck, but on joy and satisfaction. The knowledge they share will encourage and inspire.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

“A fascinating collection.” —Newsday

“This impressive group of mainstream feminist role models will inspire girls and women alike.” —Publishers Weekly

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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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Searching for New Identities

Women of my generation discovered that we were oppressed, and we vowed to change that for ourselves, for our daughters, and for the generations of women who would follow. Most of the world had assumed for too many years that women couldn't be doctors or scientists, attorneys or elected officials, executives, presidents of universities, or highly ranked artists or musicians; and we surely couldn't be news anchors or television producers or editors (of anything other than women's magazines). Although there were a great many other "couldn't bes", at least we could be excellent teachers, nurses, social workers, mothers, and wives. As a matter of fact, it was assumed that we could cook and clean and shop and diaper a lot better than men could.

We had studied history, and it had indeed been his story -- the story of men, with only a few contributions from women like Betsy Ross, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie. We had studied the psychology of motivation and achievement and barely noticed the footnotes that indicated the subjects were always boys or men. We learned about Erik Erikson's theories of adult development and were told that we would find our identity through the men we married. We lived the various lives that permitted us to be good helpers but provided few avenues for self-fulfillment. Most of us were even
contented with our lot. Fortunately, some of us were not, and we changed the world forever.

Now women have entered almost every career field closed to them earlier. We continue to struggle with glass ceilings and sticky floors, and with balancing careers, relationships, and families. We are still pioneering the paths that will permit us to fulfill ourselves or combine careers with family and relationships, depending on our choices.

Although each generation will create its own and somewhat different path, the survey for See Jane Win and the stories of How Jane Won were created with the assumption that the research and stories behind successful women's lives can provide road maps for the future. For girls and women who wish to be successful, there's a wealth of wisdom in these pages.


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Edition details

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 060980720X
• ISBN 13: 9780609807200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368