Everything a Mother Needs to know* *about Pregnancy Rights, Maternity Leave, and Making Her Career Work for Her

Weisberg, Anne C. And Carol A. Buckler

ISBN 10: 0385424108 / ISBN 13: 9780385424103

Published by Doubleday, 1994, 1994

About this Item

Soft Cover. Near Fine. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-385-42410-8. Edges of covers slightly curled at corners. 235 pages.

Seller Inventory # 004694

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everything a Mother Needs to know* *about Pregnancy Rights, Maternity Leave, and Making Her Career Work for Her
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1994
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385424108
• ISBN 13: 9780385424103
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business and Economics

About this title

Synopsis

The first handbook to help working mothers maintain and enhance their careers includes advice on handling colleagues' misconceptions, alternative work arrangements, and child care. Simultaneous. Tour.

Reviews

"Images of working mothers as not committed to their careers, or better suited to being home, or grasping for more than they deserve, often form the basis for how their work is evaluated. Seeing through these images is the first step in taking control of your experience as a working mother," advise Weisberg and Buckler, each one both a lawyer and a mother. Their realistic assessment of the obstacles often presented to working mothers, whether at home ("husbands act as if they have traditional wives . . . even if they don't") or at the workplace, will be helpful to anyone plotting the considerable life changes posed by parenting to the professional. Their book is detailed, logical and persistent in counseling constructive strategies for offsetting the resistance of some supervisors, clients and colleagues to motherhood; in negotiating for leaves and benefits; in dealing with changes brought upon marriage by a new baby; in contemplating child care options; and--even--in leaving work for good, or trading the office for self-employment in the home. Stories of how particular women have coped bring the volume down to earth, and the authors' legal expertise stands them--and their readers--in good stead. 50,000 first printing; author tour.
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