Advice for Working Moms

by Harvard Business Review, Daisy Dowling, Sheryl Ziegler

Your kid gets sick, so you leave work early--again. You're an expert at driving the carpool line and setting up for the morning meeting. You missed out on another stretch assignment because you don't have time. It's assumed you'll bake the treats for the fundraiser--and man the table.

As a working mother you often draw the short straw. You carry most of the burden of caregiving and household chores--and your career suffers because of it. Bosses and coworkers assume that since you're focused on your family, you don't prioritize work, and they give crucial opportunities to those around you.

Advice for Working Moms can help you alleviate this stress. Drawing on the wisdom of experts and parents alike, it will help you strike the right balance between family and work, all while navigating the long-standing bias against mothers and, more broadly, women in the workforce. You'll learn establish the boundaries you need at home and at work; negotiate flextime, time off, and maternity leave; facilitate your return to work after taking time off for caregiving; combat the "motherhood penalty"; negotiate a more equal division of labor at home with your partner; and say no to "office housework" and other menial tasks at work.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Audiobook

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2021

Reviews

[Ingrid Parada · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is part of a series of readings developed by HBR that compiles the different challenges of working fathers and mothers.
This book highlights the role of working mothers who are under tremendous pressure to fulfill all tasks, both at work, at home and with their close environment. It seeks to define expectations, set them more realistically, and seek to define what is needed by prioritizing their tasks and learning to delegate to helpers who can contribute to doing the rest of their work..
Good Reading

[Chelsie Jensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a self-help type book written by the Harvard Review geared towards working moms. Some of the chapters were interesting and fun to read (i.e., the chapter about how different families get dinner on the table each night). Some of the other chapters were a little basic, but I think if I were a newer mom or if I was thinking about changing jobs, there was valuable information included for those seasons of life.

Thank you to GoodReads for this free book.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book via Goodreads Giveaways. Thank you for the opportunity to read this book!

Solid advice and practical strategies for working women to balance career demands and family life.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solidarity read

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found a lot of this informative. Even though I know most of these things already. I appreciated the chapter on pumping breast milk at work. I think it will help a lot of new moms.

[Susan Csoke · Rating 4 out of 5]

An informative read. Thankyou Goodreads for this free book.