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Bennetts and millions of other working women provide ample proof that there are many different ways to have kids, maintain a challenging career, and have a richly rewarding life as a result. Earning money and being successful not only make women feel great, but when women sacrifice their financial autonomy by quitting their jobs, they become vulnerable to divorce as well as the potential illness, death, or unemployment of their breadwinner husbands. Further, they forfeit the intellectual, emotional, psychological, and even medical benefits of self-sufficiency.
The truth is that when women gamble on dependancy, most eventually end up on the wrong side of the odds. In riveting interviews with women from a wide range of backgrounds, Bennetts tells their dramatic stories -- some triumphant, others heartbreaking.
The Feminine Mistake will inspire women to accept the challenge of figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives in addition to raising children. Not since Betty Friedan has anyone offered such an eye-opening and persuasive argument for why women can -- and should -- embrace the joyously complex lives they deserve.
作者简介 Leslie Bennetts has been a contributing writer at Vanity Fair since 1988, writing on subjects that have ranged from movie stars to U.S. anti-terrorism policy. Before joining that magazine, she was the first woman ever to cover a presidential campaign for the New York Times. Bennetts lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
媒体推荐 "A provocative examination of the economic pitfalls facing stay-at-home moms . . . a clarion call . . . that taking the mommy track is risky business." -- People
"A provocative examination of the economic pitfalls facing stay-at-home moms . . . a clarion call . . . that taking the mommy track is risky business.?E -- People
"As wise an argument as has been proffered in some time . . . there are too many smart women who choose to be ignorant about the financial structure that supports the family. Until it doesn?t." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"As wise an argument as has been proffered in some time . . . there are too many smart women who choose to be ignorant about the financial structure that supports the family. Until it doesn?t.?E -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Leslie Bennets delivers an incontrovertible argument for economic self-sufficiency as the fundament of women's well-being." -- Susan Faludi, author of Backlash
"No woman could possibly confuse care and cash again after reading about the true price women pay for economic dependence." -- Liz Perle, author of Money, a Memoir
"Packed with pragmatic, well-researched advice, this manifesto on the power of financial independence is bound to inspire discussion among career women as well as stay-at-home moms." -- USA Today
"Packed with pragmatic, well-researched advice, this manifesto on the power of financial independence is bound to inspire discussion among career women as well as stay-at-home moms.?E -- USA Today
"Should be required reading for all young women contemplating marriage and a family." -- Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood and If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
A must read for everywoman." -- Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. It would be easy to dismiss this as yet another salvo in the mommy wars-—the debate over women opting out of careers to be stay-at-home moms. But Bennetts, a longtime journalist and writer for Vanity Fair, is more interested in investigating what she sees as the heart of the matter: economics. Through impressive research and interviews with experts and with real women, Bennetts shows that women simply cannot afford to quit their day jobs. Long-term loss of income has a cascading impact in areas such as medical benefits and retirement funds, not to mention a woman's sense of autonomy, derived from financial independence. Further, a career supplies a woman with a measure of security for herself and her children in the event of unexpected sickness or divorce. As any woman who has tried knows, returning to the workforce and finding a well-paying job after an absence of years, or even decades, is difficult. Not so long ago mothers would pin a dollar bill to their daughters' underclothes when they went out on a date in case, for some reason, they needed carfare home. Those mothers knew all to well that without money of your own it's easy to be left stranded. As Bennetts expertly shows, it's still true. (Apr.)
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