PDF Ebook Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
How is making sure that this Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter will not presented in your bookshelves? This is a soft documents publication Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter, so you can download Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter by buying to obtain the soft data. It will certainly ease you to review it each time you require. When you really feel careless to move the published publication from the home of workplace to some area, this soft documents will certainly alleviate you not to do that. Due to the fact that you can just save the information in your computer unit and also device. So, it enables you read it almost everywhere you have readiness to check out Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
PDF Ebook Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Excellent Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter book is always being the very best buddy for spending little time in your workplace, night time, bus, and anywhere. It will certainly be a great way to merely look, open, and also review guide Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter while in that time. As recognized, experience and skill don't always included the much money to get them. Reading this book with the title Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter will allow you recognize more things.
As understood, adventure and experience regarding driving lesson, entertainment, and also understanding can be gained by just checking out a publication Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter Also it is not directly done, you can understand more about this life, about the globe. We offer you this appropriate and also very easy means to acquire those all. We offer Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter and also numerous book collections from fictions to science in any way. One of them is this Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter that can be your companion.
What should you assume a lot more? Time to get this Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter It is very easy then. You could only rest and stay in your area to obtain this book Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter Why? It is on the internet book store that give numerous collections of the referred publications. So, simply with web connection, you could delight in downloading this publication Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter as well as numbers of books that are hunted for now. By going to the web link page download that we have supplied, guide Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter that you refer a lot can be discovered. Merely save the requested book downloaded then you could enjoy the book to check out every single time as well as place you want.
It is quite simple to check out the book Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter in soft file in your device or computer. Once again, why need to be so tough to obtain guide Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter if you can select the easier one? This site will certainly reduce you to pick and decide on the most effective collective books from the most wanted vendor to the released publication lately. It will constantly upgrade the compilations time to time. So, link to internet and also see this website always to obtain the new book daily. Currently, this Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, By Anne-Marie Slaughter is your own.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington
When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her to pursue the job; she had a tremendously supportive boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and she had been moving up on a high-profile career track since law school. But then life intervened. Parenting needs caused her to make a decision to leave the State Department and return to an academic career that gave her more time for her family.
The reactions to her choice to leave Washington because of her kids led her to question the feminist narrative she grew up with. Her subsequent article for The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” created a firestorm, sparked intense national debate, and became one of the most-read pieces in the magazine’s history.
Since that time, Anne-Marie Slaughter has pushed forward, breaking free of her long-standing assumptions about work, life, and family. Though many solutions have been proposed for how women can continue to break the glass ceiling or rise above the “motherhood penalty,” women at the top and the bottom of the income scale are further and further apart.
Now, in her refreshing and forthright voice, Anne-Marie Slaughter returns with her vision for what true equality between men and women really means, and how we can get there. She uncovers the missing piece of the puzzle, presenting a new focus that can reunite the women’s movement and provide a common banner under which both men and women can advance and thrive.
With moving personal stories, individual action plans, and a broad outline for change, Anne-Marie Slaughter reveals a future in which all of us can finally finish the business of equality for women and men, work and family.
Praise for Unfinished Business
“Another clarion call from Slaughter . . . Her case for revaluing and better compensating caregiving is compelling. . . . [Slaughter] makes it a point in her book to speak beyond the elite.”—Jill Abramson, The Washington Post
“Slaughter’s important contribution is to use her considerable platform to call for cultural change, itself profoundly necessary. . . . It should go right into the hands of (still mostly male) decision-makers.”—Los Angeles Times
“Compelling and lively . . . The mother of a manifesto for working women.”—Financial Times
“A meaningful correction to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In . . . For Slaughter, it is organizations—not women—that need to change.”—Slate
“I’m confident that you will be left with Anne-Marie’s hope and optimism that we can change our points of view and policies so that both men and women can fully participate in their families and use their full talents on the job.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton
“An eye-opening call to action from someone who rethought the whole notion of ‘having it all,’ Unfinished Business could change how many of us approach our most important business: living.”—People
- Sales Rank: #93298 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Released on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.53" h x 1.20" w x 5.80" l, 1.21 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Review
“An eye-opening call to action from someone who rethought the whole notion of ‘having it all,’ Unfinished Business could change how many of us approach our most important business: living.”—People
“Another clarion call from [Anne-Marie] Slaughter . . . Her case for revaluing and better compensating caregiving is compelling. . . . Slaughter skillfully exposes half-truths in the workplace [and] makes it a point in her book to speak beyond the elite.”—Jill Abramson, The Washington Post
“Slaughter argues that the current punishing route to professional success—or simply to survival—is stalling gender progress. . . . [Her] important contribution is to use her considerable platform to call for cultural change, itself profoundly necessary. The book’s audience, then, shouldn’t just be worried womankind. It should go right into the hands of (still mostly male) decision-makers.”—Los Angeles Times
“Slaughter should be applauded for devising a ‘new vocabulary’ to identify a broad, misclassified social phenomenon. And she is razor-sharp on outlining the cultural shifts necessary to give caregiving its due. . . . By putting these issues on the agenda, Slaughter has already taken an essential first step.”—The Economist
“A meaningful correction to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In . . . For Slaughter, it is organizations—not women—that need to change.”—Slate
“The mother of a manifesto for working women . . . Anecdotes from [Slaughter’s] own life and others are deftly interwoven with research, making Unfinished Business a compelling and lively read.”—Financial Times
“Anne-Marie Slaughter insists that we ask ourselves hard questions. After reading Unfinished Business, I’m confident that you will be left with Anne-Marie’s hope and optimism that we can change our points of view and policies so that both men and women can fully participate in their families and use their full talents on the job.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton
“Anne-Marie Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington
“With breathtaking honesty Anne-Marie Slaughter tackles the challenges of often conflicted working mothers and working fathers and shows how we can craft the lives we want for our families. Her book will spark a national conversation about what we need to do to live saner, more satisfying lives.”—Katie Couric
“Unfinished Business is an important read for women and men alike. Slaughter shows us that when people share equally the responsibility of caring for others, they are healthier, economies prosper, and both women and men are freer to lead the lives they want.”—Melinda Gates
“Important. Revolutionary. Unfinished Business insists we recognize a simple truth: Human life requires space for caring for others—during childhood, illness, infirmity, and everything in between. And societies that consider caring as simply a ‘women’s issue’ are fundamentally broken and unhappy. Anne-Marie Slaughter has written the instruction manual for our next cultural transformation.”—Atul Gawande
“Anne-Marie Slaughter has given us a blueprint for the future in which women truly have freedom to choose. They can be leaders at the workplace, and they can be leaders at home, at any point in their lives. Unfinished Business paves the way for women and men to be equal partners in America’s cultural and economic success by accessing 100 percent of our brainpower and creativity.”—Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Unfinished Business sets out a powerful vision not only for gender equality, but for the future of work. Anne-Marie Slaughter presents an important approach to tapping into the talent pool of gifted, educated women who have taken time out for their kids—and we need to pay attention.”—Eric Schmidt
About the Author
Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America. She is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former dean of its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Slaughter director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, the first woman to hold that job. A foreign policy analyst, legal and international relations scholar, and public commentator, Slaughter was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School and is a former president of the American Society of International Law.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Less Can Be More
During the 2014 Super Bowl, Cadillac ran an ad that was meant to be a celebration of American workaholism. It showed a clean- cut fifty-something white man with blazing blue eyes walking and talking his way through his mansion while extolling the virtues of the American work ethic. “Other countries, they work, they stroll home, they stop by the café, they take August off. Off. Why aren’t you like that? Why aren’t we like that? Because we’re crazy, driven, hardworking believers,” says the guy, who looks like a car- toon version of a one-percenter, to the camera. The moral of the ad: If you just work hard enough, avoiding vacation and “creating your own luck,” anything, including the ownership of a $75,000 car, is possible.
The ad drove me crazy. The man was so smug and so com- pletely out of touch with what I consider to be the real values that Americans have traditionally proclaimed and tried to pass down to their children. Yes, Europeans and others often criticize Amer- ican culture for being materialistic, but when Thomas Jefferson described humankind’s “unalienable rights” in the Declaration of Independence, he took English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke’s “life, liberty, and estate” and substituted “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” And as the behavioral psychologists tell us, happiness is more likely to be found in the pleasures of human connection and experience—a good meal, a play or movie or sporting event, a bouquet of flowers or a bottle of champagne— than it is in an endless catalogue of possessions.
I wasn’t alone in my reaction. One reporter wrote, “You know what really needs attention? What working like crazy and taking no time off really gets us[?]” It gets Americans to the grave earlier, it’s made us more anxious than people in other developed coun- tries, and it’s created a group of people more disengaged from their jobs than in countries with more leisure time.
In the end, it was New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin who made the most damning argument against the commercial. As we were talking about it, he pointed out that Cadillac was disparaging the vacation-loving Europeans in an effort to sell luxury cars to a wealthy U.S. audience who prefer German BMWs and Mercedes. Last I checked, German workers get a mandated minimum twenty days of vacation every year.
It’s that simple. German workers work at least two weeks a year less than American workers do and yet produce better cars. Perhaps that is because German managers still subscribe to the empirical findings that led Henry Ford to establish an eight-hour workday in 1914. When Ford looked at in-house research, he realized that manual laborers were finished after eight hours of work a day. After he cut hours, errors went down, and productiv- ity, employee satisfaction, and company profits went up.
We actually have a growing body of data in support of the proposition that working less means working better. According to much more recent research, people who work principally with their brains rather than their hands have an even shorter amount of real daily productivity than manual laborers. Microsoft em- ployees, for instance, reported that they put in only twenty-eight productive hours in a forty-five-hour workweek—a little less than six hours a day. Futurist Sara Robinson found the same thing: knowledge workers have fewer than eight hours a day of hard mental labor in them before they start making mistakes.
This relationship between working better and working less holds particularly true in any job requiring creativity, the well- spring of innovation. Experts on creativity emphasize the value of nonlinear thinking and cultivated randomness, from long walks to looking at your environment in ways you never have before. Making time for play, as well as designated downtime, has also been found to boost creativity. Experts suggest we should change the rhythm of our workdays to include periods in which we are simply letting our minds run wherever they want to go. Without play, we might never be able to make the unexpected connections that are the essence of insight.
Most helpful customer reviews
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful insights on a very important topic
By Just Me
First off, this book is coming from someone who is very career oriented. High performance and high income appear to be quite important to Slaughter. That said, I think she has done a good job of stepping out of her own perspective to take a wider view, and her insights are valid across our culture, not just for the “career woman.”
Slaughter looks at how caring for others is undervalued in our society and how everyone would benefit (career women, working women, stay-at-home mothers, men, and children) if this was corrected. She looks at many ways in which this can be achieved. She looks at other cultures which do place a higher value on care. She looks at how business, government, and individuals can help place more value on care.
By care, Slaughter is referring to more than child care. She also looks at elder care and the many types of charitable giving. She looks at how increasing the value of care is part of expanding the benefits of the feminist movement. There is more to feminism than women doing what men have traditionally done.
She looks at the benefits of not only changing our expectations of women, but our expectations of men. Including what men do in the home. She looks at how men typically parent differently, and why women should accept this as a valid parenting method.
Part of the book, which may be pointless to those of us who are dedicated career women, looks at how “the majority of Americans are mired in a 1950s mindset when it comes to assumptions about when and how we work, what an ideal worker looks like, and when to expect that ideal worker to peak in his career. Men who came up through the old system and succeeded in it simply find it very hard to believe that their businesses could flourish any other way.” Here, she is largely referring to the business career ladder and how motherhood (or other care-giving) tends to derail a career tract rather than just delay it. She looks at how the focus on walking the walk is often more important than actual productivity. Useful insights for those interested in this, but not for everyone. This seems to have turned many people off from the book, but this is only part of what the book is about.
Overall, Slaughter offers well rounded coverage of the topic of how care giving and income earning intersect. It is a deep and insightful look and offers practical information as well as food for thought.
Because Amazon isn’t offering a look inside this book (at least at the time of this review), here’s the contents:
Part 1: Moving Beyond Our Mantras
1 – Half-Truths Women Hold Dear
2 – Half-Truths About Men
3 – Half-Truths in the Workplace
Part 2: Changing Lenses
4 – Cash and Care
5 – Is Managing Money Really Harder then Managing Kids?
6 – The Next Phase of the Women’s Movement
7 – Let It Go
Part 3: Getting to Equal
8 – Change the Way You Talk
9 – Planning Your Career (Even Though It Rarely Works Out as Planned)
10 – The Perfect Workplace
11 – Citizens Who Care
I especially recommend this book to young adults, who have their careers and their care-giving ahead of them.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Honest, creative, and insightful.
By Ladybug
Anne-Marie Slaughter was Director of Policy Planning under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton--but she's most familiar to me as the author of her controversial Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." The woman has some seriously impressive credentials, and I was excited to hear what she had to say about the oft talked-about subject of work/family balance, and I was curious to see how her thoughts stacked up against other books on the subject, such as Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, and Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
Amazingly, Unfinished Business adds something new to the discussion. Slaughter's ideas are refreshing and insightful, and I also happen to think she is spot on. Slaughter's strongest point is that there is powerful and ubiquitous discrimination against caregiving in the United States. Fifty years ago, women wanted out of the home. They wanted to have freedom to pursue their own goals, while also having the opportunity to support themselves. And over the past half-century, they've more or less accomplished this goal. Obviously there is still progress to be made, but there is no denying that women are better off than they were several years ago. They are better educated, more independent, and largely more self-supporting. But, as Slaughter says, "In the long quest for gender equality, women first had to gain power and independence by emulating men." They may have proven that they can do "men's work," but, unfortunately, what was once considered "women's work," (i.e., caring for children and the home) is still not valued in our society.
Traditionally, we talk about kids and work/life balance as if these are "woman problems." But Slaughter argues that having the time and flexibility to provide care--whether to our kids, parents, or friends--is a freedom that everyone, man or woman, should have. Moreover, people should be respected and rewarded for engaging with and taking care of their families--for, say, taking paternity leave or adjusting their schedules in order to attend a child's play.
In fact, I love how Slaughter sees the next phase of the women's movement being a men's movement, where men fight for and ultimately achieve the same range of choices that women have when it comes to care-giving vs. breadwinning. Imagine if men could be accepted, truly accepted, as the lead parents at home, without judgment or condescension. How freeing that would be for both women and men alike!
Slaughter ends the book with several in-depth and creative ideas for creating workplace environments that are legitimately family-friendly. There is little here that is concrete or immediately implementable, but I thought she gave some good jumping off points.
Overall, I loved Unfinished Business. I'm so happy to see more high-powered women writing books like this, books that honestly examine the barriers people face when they try to do their jobs well AND still be present with their families. Talking about these issues is the first step to genuinely addressing the problems.
36 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
A good premise drowned out by the author’s insufferably elitist perspective
By Malvin
“Unfinished Business” by Anne-Marie Slaughter regrettably joins a long list of feminist writings where a good premise has been drowned out by the author’s insufferably elitist perspective. To be fair, Ms. Slaughter is an exceptional woman who has achieved great things as an educator, analyst and public servant. Unfortunately, Ms. Slaughter’s reticence to speak truth to power dilutes her book’s message; making for a listless and uninspiring journey for reader who have the fortitude to muddle through its 200+ pages.
It's not that Ms. Slaughter doesn't has a story to tell. Ms. Slaughter left a prestigious government assignment to care for her family during a time of personal struggle. The experience led to a high-profile magazine article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” which in turn led to this book. Reading about the author’s struggles is without a doubt the best part of the book. Let me be clear: I have nothing but respect for the author and her courage to do what she felt was best for her family.
Regrettably, Ms. Slaughter’s personal revelations become grist for 11 chapters on a subject that working class people have always known: namely, that balancing work and family life ain’t so easy to do. Something usually has to give.
It’s not all bad. Ms. Slaughter recognizes that men’s nurturing potentials need to be respected and supported in a society where women continue to make substantive gains in the professional world. The author is correct when she says that language matters, the crisis in education is rooted in issues of inequality, and that more women in positions of power can help. This much is (more or less) true and it’s nice to hear a person of Ms. Slaughter’s stature lend her voice to these assorted critical issues.
The problem is that Ms. Slaughter’s ivory tower worldview makes it difficult for her to make common cause. Chapters such as ‘Planning Your Career’ might be just fine for those 1% of students who have had the privilege of attending an Ivy League university but seems wildly out of touch with the needs of the many young graduates who can barely afford their student loan repayments. Similarly, Ms. Slaughter’s advice that women should selectively shop for the best employers who offer flexible workplace policies seems myopic at a time when so many young people are underemployed in dead-end jobs or exploited as unpaid interns.
Ms. Slaughter writes breathlessly about a few corporations who have adapted flexible workplace rules. However, she doesn’t explain how or why we should expect such enlightened policies to become the norm in a cutthroat market economy. While suasion might indeed open doors for Ms. Slaughter's consulting practice for the relatively small number of businesses who prefer Harvard graduates, there doesn't seem to be a seat at the table for ordinary workers in the trickle-down world of enlightened corporate paternalism that Ms. Slaughter seems to imagine.
On that point, Ms. Slaughter seems to run wildly off track when she enthuses about the rise of the so-called sharing economy. Inexplicably, Ms. Slaughter fails to appreciate that technology is a tool of capital accumulation; not social empowerment. Inexplicably, the author simply says she presumes that government will provide benefits for the casual laborers of the sharing economy. But can anyone doubt that the powers accrued by deep-pocketed technology entrepreneurs will pose a severe challenge to her tepidly progressive political agenda?
In the end, by positing that logic, good intentions and enlightened policies alone can prevail in the absence of a strong social movement to agitate for change, Ms. Slaughter’s well-intentioned book achieves very little.
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter PDF
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter EPub
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter Doc
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter iBooks
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter rtf
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter Mobipocket
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter Kindle
