Balancing Work and Love: Jewish Women Facing the Family-Career Challenge
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584650001 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A book you can relate to A Customer In her book, Elaine Grudin Denholtz interviews Jewish women in different stages of their working lives. Some are married, others are struggling to raise children without a spousesome are career defined, while others are focused more on their families. I ordered this book because I am a Jewish woman, in an intermarriage, who is thinking of having children, and possibly keeping my career (atleast part. "disappointed" according to Amazon Customer. Poorly written. Thank goodness I got this from my library and I didn't spend money on it. Never explain why problem is unique to Jewish women.
ELAINE GRUDIN DENHOLTZ is a journalist, playwright, and author. Recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Playwriting Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism, she teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her best-selling books include Playing for High Stakes: The Men, Money, and Power of Corporate Wives and Having It Both Ways: Married Women with Lovers.
Offering intimate portraits of Jewish families at home and at work, at prayer and at play, Balancing Work and Love provides a clear-eyed look at the American Jewish family, touching on themes relevant to all working women. Jewish women tell all. Elaine Grudin Denholtz talks to single women, married women, lesbians, single moms, divorced women, workaholics, volunteers, feminists, and deeply religious women who discuss deadlines and dating, carpools and commissions. This is a pathbreaking book of true stories about American Jewish working women coping with the triple stress of jobs, families, and maintaining a Jewish outlook. Raised to be good Jewish mothers,
LC 00-009416 . From the Publisher 6 x 9 trim