Beside Every Successful Man: A Woman's Guide to Having It All - Couverture rigide

Basham, Megan

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ISBN 10 : 0307393631 ISBN 13 : 9780307393630

Editeur : Crown Forum, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur

“There is a reason this book is titled beside every successful man rather than behind him. It is about taking the best part of the progress women have made and combining it with age-old wisdom to create a more satisfying future for both you and your husband. The wives who were the models for this book are not put-upon ‘little women.’ They didn’t abandon their own ambitions and desires by helping their husbands achieve theirs. They fulfilled them. Their service isn’t the same thing as subservience—they stand beside their husbands as equal partners. . . . This book is about real women who practiced simple though sometimes challenging principles to help their husbands achieve results that benefited their entire family. . . . What you’re about to read won’t tell you what you should want. It will tell you how to get what you do want.”
—from the author’s introduction to Beside Every Successful Man

“Stay-at-home wife”? “Stay-at-home mom”? In our parents’ day, those labels were either proudly worn or grudgingly accepted, but to nearly everyone they meant the same thing: a woman whose lifestyle involved running the household, preparing the meals, and tending to her husband and kids.

What has happened since? Station wagons have yielded to sport-utility hybrids, technology has arrived with a myriad of new ways to stay connected, and a new army of educated, highly skilled women has reinvented—and reembraced—“stay at home.”

Today’s female “stay-at-homer” tends to be much more highly educated and work-credentialed, which opens up exciting possibilities, chief among them the opportunity to be her husband’s most important career partner, mentoring and advising him to reach a level of success he wouldn’t achieve otherwise.
The unexpected dividends? Here, journalist and researcher Megan Basham persuasively argues that those who choose home as “command central” can expect a stronger marriage, but also—eventually—a higher income. Ironically, passing up that second paycheck frees up time to guide your husband to the kinds of professional triumphs that are money multipliers, creating long-sought financial freedom for your family.

Far from being homemaking June Cleavers, the women Basham investigates are firebrands, with skills ranging from public relations and accounting to executive decision-making. Many have pedigreed educations. While they were in the working world, what these women longed for was not a life of lunching and spa days but, rather, time to reflect and the comfort of being part of a joint family mission. For these trust-their-gut women searching for intellectual satisfaction and serenity, the answer was to help their husbands achieve a professional dream.

To show how it is possible to “have it all,” Basham profiles a wide range of wives, not just those whose husbands (like former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos) have risen to national prominence, but those whose husbands have triumphed outside the limelight. Each of these women, it turns out, has led a richly satisfying life—partly achieved by assuring her husband’s success.

One of the most provocative and convincing books ever written on the topic of women and work—a manual that, with its precise tips, will speed women toward the balance they seek—Beside Every Successful Man doesn’t just tell women what to do, it shows them how in a way that is inspirational.

Revue de presse

"This is a provocative, persuasive and important book. Even those who passionately disagree with its conclusions will come away enriched and enlightened from the process of confronting its arguments."
—Michael Medved, Nationally Syndicated Talk Radio Host and Columnist, USA Today

“In the 21st century 'stay-at-home mom' is neither a compliment nor an epithet, but the latest chapter in the ongoing stories of women, marriage, and careers in America. Megan Basham's fascinating study of women in the oldest and most challenging workplace of all–the home--is the owner's manual for women and men who look upon marriage as a genuine partnership, and the key to success.”
—Philip Terzian, Literary Editor, The Weekly Standard

“Megan Basham offers wise and eloquent counsel for those willing to ignore popular opinion as they pursue family happiness.”
—Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World

“Meghan Barsham’s book tells us three timely truths you will not hear anywhere else: On average, highly educated wives play a crucial role in their husband’s career success, women who let their husbands take the lead in breadwinning enjoy happier marriages, and couples who focus on common goals enjoy happier and more stable marriages. So, husbands and wives, take careful note of this engaging and important new book.”
—W. Bradford Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Marriage Matters Project

“Basham's fresh and persuasive argument offers a new social accounting of married life which credits the meaningful work of mothers who stay at home. She demonstrates how wives can invest their time and talent advancing the partnership of marriage to the benefit of the entire family. This is a wise and inspirational guide for every woman (and man) who wants more out of family life than is often experienced in the conventional two-career household."
—Neil Gilbert, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, and author of A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life

“In this brave, helpful book, Megan Basham shows women how to be crucial to a strong team rather than just a solitary star.  Perhaps more important, she gives them the dignity and tools to break free from feminist dogma and choose their own path.  I suffered feminist guilt when I minimized my psychology practice to become my husband's editor and networker and a more involved mom -- even though I loved it and gained an irreplaceable role in my marriage and my kids' lives.  Thank you, Megan, for giving women the gumption and the tools to team up with their husbands rather than compete with them.”
—Diane Medved, Ph.D., author of The Case Against Divorce and coauthor of The American Family

“Without using the word, Megan Basham has rediscovered the Biblical notion of ‘helpmeet,’ the wife whose intimate partnership with her husband operates not only in their family but also in her support for his work. She explores what this role consists of and how it draw it draws a couple closer. There’s food for thought here for any wife, including one who has her own career.”
—Claudia Anderson, Managing Editor, The Weekly Standard

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Crown Forum
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307393631
• ISBN 13: 9780307393630
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible