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How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women - Hardcover

Rimm, Sylvia B.; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara

 
9780609607589: How Jane Won: 55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0609607588 ISBN 13: 9780609607589
Verlag: Crown Publications, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

More than fifty successful women share the secrets of how they got to where they are as they speak out on the value of personal accomplishment and describe the choices, crises, mentors, opportunities, challenges, and other steps that they encountered on the road to fulfillment. 75,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Sylvia Rimm is the bestselling author of <b>See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women</b>, <b>How to Parent So Children Will Learn</b>, and many other books. She is also director of the Family Achievement Clinic and a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is a contributing correspondent to NBC's Today show, host of Family Talk with Sylvia Rimm on public radio, and the author of a syndicated newspaper column on parenting.<br><br>Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville with her husband. They have a son and are expecting their second child soon.<br><br>For more information, see Dr. Sylvia Rimm's website at www.seejanewin.com.

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Ask successful women what the secret to success is and you'll get a thousand answers. Every woman's story is unique. In this companion volume to the bestselling <b>See Jane Win</b>, Dr. Sylvia Rimm lets more than fifty women from all walks of life tell their own stories of success in their own words. Among them are plenty of household names, including Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, singer and actress Florence Henderson, New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, space shuttle commander Eileen Collins, Harry Potter artist Mary GrandPre, novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard, and more. But there are also women you've never heard of — scientists, teachers, artists, homemakers, doctors, publishers, and more — who are every bit as successful. To learn how these women earned, struggled, and lucked their way to the top is both fun and inspiring.<br><br>How do you define success? In Dr. Rimm's definition, success is more than a six-figure paycheck or a fancy title; it's a sense of happiness and satisfaction in what you do. Lisa Hayes-Taylor's account of why she loves being an elementary schoolteacher, Roberta Baldwin's eloquent sonnet on the virtues of volunteering, Tamara Minick-Scokalo's story of rising to become one of Procter & Gamble's first female marketing directors, and Catherine Callaway's description of the road to CNN offer four routes to completely different experiences of success. <br><br>You'll find dozens of hard-earned life lessons here to inspire your own path, among them: be willing to fail; don't be afraid to be the smart girl; it's okay to fall from one career into another; if a mentor offers you a hand, take it; you don't have to know everything; transfer your talents from one field into the next; and don't worry if you're not certain about what you want to do with your life. The common thread through these life stories is the wisdom of nurturing a passion, paying attention to what brings you happiness, persevering, and appreciating that the path between points A and B is seldom a straight line. Sometimes the first step to success is believing it's possible. <b>How Jane Won</b> shows the many roads from possibility to achievement and the inspiration you need to make your own unique journey.

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Searching for New Identities

Women of my generation discovered that we were oppressed, and we vowed to change that for ourselves, for our daughters, and for the generations of women who would follow. Most of the world had assumed for too many years that women couldn't be doctors or scientists, attorneys or elected officials, executives, presidents of universities, or highly ranked artists or musicians; and we surely couldn't be news anchors or television producers or editors (of anything other than women's magazines). Although there were a great many other "couldn't bes", at least we could be excellent teachers, nurses, social workers, mothers, and wives. As a matter of fact, it was assumed that we could cook and clean and shop and diaper a lot better than men could.

We had studied history, and it had indeed been his story -- the story of men, with only a few contributions from women like Betsy Ross, Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie. We had studied the psychology of motivation and achievement and barely noticed the footnotes that indicated the subjects were always boys or men. We learned about Erik Erikson's theories of adult development and were told that we would find our identity through the men we married. We lived the various lives that permitted us to be good helpers but provided few avenues for self-fulfillment. Most of us were even
contented with our lot. Fortunately, some of us were not, and we changed the world forever.

Now women have entered almost every career field closed to them earlier. We continue to struggle with glass ceilings and sticky floors, and with balancing careers, relationships, and families. We are still pioneering the paths that will permit us to fulfill ourselves or combine careers with family and relationships, depending on our choices.

Although each generation will create its own and somewhat different path, the survey for See Jane Win and the stories of How Jane Won were created with the assumption that the research and stories behind successful women's lives can provide road maps for the future. For girls and women who wish to be successful, there's a wealth of wisdom in these pages.

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Verlag
Crown Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609607588
ISBN 13 
9780609607589
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
351
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