The MomShift: Women Share their Stories of Career Success After Having Children

The MomShift: Women Share their Stories of Career Success After Having Children

by Reva Seth
The MomShift: Women Share their Stories of Career Success After Having Children

The MomShift: Women Share their Stories of Career Success After Having Children

by Reva Seth

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Overview

The MomShift is the first book to exclusively research and showcase the stories of a diverse range of relatable women who share the multitude of ways in which they achieved greater career success after starting their families.
 
Women are regularly told that having children will hurt their careers--until now. In The MomShift, Reva Seth talked to over 500 mothers from a broad range of professional and personal backgrounds who have defied cultural expectations and achieved greater professional success after starting their families.

For these women and others like them, having children actually enhanced their work life: by helping them prioritize and set bigger goals, inspiring them to work harder and smarter or even spurring them to start their own businesses. As Rebecca Woolf--of Girl's Gone Child blog fame--puts it, "Motivation, thy name is parenthood."

But as Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook has pointed out, when an already busy women starts thinking about having a child, she frequently steps back from her career goals, unable to picture how her already busy life will accommodate children. Enter The MomShift, which covers areas such as how much we really need to "lean in," whether there's a "best time" to have a baby, the benefits of re-framing maternity leave, ambition, financial concerns, the changing nature of careers, and whether work/life balance really exists for working mothers. Each chapter has discussion questions to keep the conversation going and the ideas percolating. The result is a reassuring, supportive and inspirational resource that emphasizes there is no one right way to balance careers and family, and that illustrates the many choices women have today. The MomShift is an invaluable career companion brimming with motivation, tips and ideas to help each woman to create her own version of career success during the often hectic but highly productive "mom" years.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345812667
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
Publication date: 02/11/2014
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Reva Seth is an author and entrepreneur who regularly speaks on issues related to working mothers. She began her career as a corporate lawyer and then moved into strategic and corporate communications. Seth has written for the Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business and the Huffington Post, and has been featured on numerous radio and television shows including 20/20, Canada A.M., and Steven and Chris. She lives in Toronto with her husband and three boys.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Welcome to the MomShift 1

1 Is There a Right Time or a Best Time to Have a Baby? 15

2 Maternity Leave: The Big Jump 37

3 Reinvention 74

4 Staying on the Ladder 118

5 How We Work 166

6 Change on the Home Front 205

7 Dollars and Cents 241

8 Where To from Here? 251

Discussion Guide 258

Suggested Reading 262

Acknowledgements 264

Notes 266

Index 275

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