A Mother's Place: Choosing Work and Family Without Guilt or Blame - Softcover

"Important and well-reasoned book. Working mothers could not ask for a better companion."-- "New York Times""Chira has elevated the debate...An ambitious book, clearly intended to retire the field and enable working mothers to get on with it."-- "Los Angeles Times""A hand-holder for all those mothers who see themselves labeled as selfish and unearing because they choose to bring home the paycheck."-- "Kirkus Reviews""A passionate defense of working mothers."-- "Parenting""A controversial work. You cannot read it without thinking. And thinking...At the very least, Chira has done something heroic by really analyzing the issue."-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"

A well-known New York Times journalist demonstrates how women can ignore the two extremes of conventional wisdom in regard to working women and strike a personal balance that best suits their own family between work in and out of the home. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.