Womenomics, Claire Shipman
Womenomics, Claire Shipman
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Womenomics

Author: Claire Shipman, Katherine Kay

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2009

Synopsis

“A personal, provocative, and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life.”
—Diane Sawyer Womenomics, the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for this generation of professional women, provide knowledgeable advice on how to “Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better.” Shipman and Kay, two TV journalists well acquainted with the stress of the workplace, describe the new economic trends that offer today’s overworked working women more professional and personal choices than ever before. At last, you no longer have to do it all to have it all—Womenomics shows you how.

About Claire Shipman

Claire Shipman is a journalist, author, and public speaker. She’s the author, along with Katty Kay, of two New York Times bestsellers, Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better and The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know. Before turning to writing, Claire spent almost three decades as an award-winning television journalist. For the last fourteen years, Claire was a regular contributor to Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. Before that, she served as White House correspondent for NBC News, where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News and Today. Prior to that, she worked for CNN for a decade, covering the White House, and she was also posted in Moscow for five years, reporting on the fall of the Soviet Union. Claire’s coverage from Moscow helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and a coveted Peabody Award. She received a DuPont Award and an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising, as well as a DuPont Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. She graduated from Columbia College and later earned a master’s degree from the School of International Affairs there. She’s now a member of Columbia’s board of trustees. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two children and three dogs. Visit Claire online at www.theconfidencecode.com.

About Katherine Kay

Katty Kay is the Washington, DC, anchor for BBC World News America. She is a regular guest on NBC's Meet the Press and MSNBC's Morning Joe. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and four children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alina

The first half was just flat out offensive: the two authors telling me what women want. Not only offensive, but obnoxious that they wasted so much space telling me that I want to spend less time at the office and more time at home with the children. Don't men want to spend time at home with their ch......more

Goodreads review by Arwa

I’d recommend this book to anyone, male or female, with a demanding job. I loved the key messages in this book on how you can be empowered to change the things you hate in your job - mainly the working hours. It’s mind-opening in a way where you are allowed to say no, and demand a better work/life b......more

Goodreads review by cordelia

جدا از روش های بررسی و تحقیق نویسنده که گاهی مبهم بنظر میرسید کتاب خوبی برای خوندنه......more

Goodreads review by Christine

The audience for this book is very narrow: upper class professional women who are midway through their careers. The assumptions are that your work/family/life balance issues are exclusively about time. Their advice is to negotiate by resting on your laurels, which is completely unhelpful to women wh......more

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