RoadMaps:  navigating work-life success for women

Suggested Reading

Women’s Lives, Women’s Choices: The Role of Women in the Family

The 1950-1960s

The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe (1958)

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (1961)

Sex and the Single Girl, Helen Gurley Brown (1962)

The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)

Diary of a Mad Housewife, Sue Kaufman (1967)

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, Stephanie Coontz (1992)

Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, Carolyn Heilbrun (1996)

The Help, Kathryn Stockett (2009)

The 1980s-1990s

In Every Woman’s Life, Alix Kates Shulman (1987)

The Second Shift, Arlie Russell Hochschild (1989)

Sequencing, Arlene Rossen Cardoza (1996)

I Don’t Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson (2003)

Today:

Maternal Desire, Daphne de Marneffe (2004)

To Hell With All That, Caitlin Flanagan (2006)

I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids, T. Ashworth & A. Nobile (2007)

The Other Mother, Gwendolen Gross (2007)

Opting Out, Pamela Stone (2007)

Beside Every Successful Man, Meghan Basham (2008)

37, Maria Beaumont (2008)

The Feminine Mistake, Leslie Bennetts (2008)

Firefly Lane, Kristen Hannah (2008)

The Comeback, Emma Gilbey Keller (2008)

The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer (2008)