MOTHERS Book Bag

More on Off- and On-Ramping

Interviews with Sylvia Ann Hewlett

• Sylvia Ann Hewlett discusses Off-Ramps and On-Ramps on ABC News
• Listen to Sylvia Ann Hewlett discuss "Extreme Jobs" on the HBR Ideacast
• Flex Appeal: Tired of Seeing Overburdened Moms Head for the Exit, Companies are Finding New Ways to Be Family-Friendly, by Virginia Bakaitis, November 12, 2007
• Opening the On-Ramp for Women by Stephen Kotkin of The New York Times, August 5, 2007
• Going off and on career path costly to women, says study, Seattle Times, August 5, 2007
• The hidden brain drain by Emily Wilson of The Guardian, June 4, 2007
• Work-life balance, The Financial Times, May 22, 2007
• Women, don't get on the work 'off-ramp' after childbirth by Marcia Heroux Pounds of TC Business Journal, May 18, 2007
• Trading Places: Researcher Sylvia Ann Hewlett on the challenges confronting at-home moms who want to revive their careers by Daniel McGinn, Newsweek Web Exclusive, September 18, 2006
• Career Track Challenges for Women: An Interview with Sylvia Ann Hewlett by Elizabeth Wilcox at Monster.com

More from Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Articles by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

• Diversity Matters More in a Downturn at Harvard Business Online, February 4, 2008
• Helping Women Succeed: What Academia Can Learn from the Private Sector at Harvard Business Online, January 17, 2008
• On-Ramping Comes of Age at Harvard Business Online, January 7, 2008
• Ambition and High-Octane Women at Harvard Business Online, December 6, 2007
• Cherie Blair and the On-Ramping Challenge at The Huffington Post, July 3, 2007
• Off-Ramps and On-Ramps at The Huffington Post, June 4, 2007
• Woman, Interrupted at Harvard Business Online, May 17, 2007
• Working Moms--Between a Rock and a Hard Place at The Huffington Post, May 14, 2007

The Feminine Mistake - Media Reaction, Reviews and Interviews

Commentary and Reviews

• Women's Work: A journalist warns women that once they leave the career track, they may never get back on - Reviewed by Rachel Hartigan Shea, April 15, 2007 at the Washington Post
• Do stay-at-home moms risk their futures by opting out of the rat race? Diane Glass and Shaunti Feldhahn debate, April 12, 2007 at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "The Feminine Mistake" In her new book, boomer Leslie Bennetts warns younger women of the perils of dumping fulfilling careers. I agree, but why are women always told they're doing something wrong? By Joan Walsh at Salon.com
• The Wives of Others: Are stay-at-home mothers putting themselves—and feminism—at risk? By Rebecca Mead, April 16, 2007 at The New Yorker1
• 'Feminine Mistake' is a hard sell on financial autonomy By Leslie Cauley of USA TODAY
• A True Feminine Mistake By David Blum, April 17, 2007 at The New York Sun
• Get Back to Work Review by Eugenie Allen, May 6, 2007, New York Times Book Review
• Will you regret staying home with your baby At Glamour.com
• The Feminine Mistake - When Leslie Bennetts urged women to stay in the workplace after starting a family, she outraged millions of Americans By JC Sutcliffe at The f-word - Contemporary UK feminism
• And Career Makes Three: Mothers don't have to opt out. And they don't have to feel guilty about it, either By Linda Tischler in the May 2007 edition of Fast Company magazine

Interviews

• The Feminine Mistake: An Interview with Author Leslie Bennetts By Caitlin Bergmann at iVillage.com
• The Feminine Mistake - an interview with Leslie Bennetts by Cindy Krischer Goodman at her blog, The Work/Life Balancing Act,

The Reaction to The Feminine Mistake: In Leslie's Own Words

Everyone knows that authors have to be prepared for negative reviews. What I didn't anticipate was an avalanche of blistering attacks by women who hadn't read my book but couldn't wait to condemn it. Their fury says a great deal about the current debate over women's choices -- all of it alarming.

I wrote The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? because the typical reporting on the job-versus-family issue was so biased and incomplete. The media gave lots of coverage to women who quit the labor force to become full-time mothers, but they treated this decision as if it were simply a lifestyle choice. They never seemed to mention the risks of economic dependency -- or the myriad benefits of work. As a result, women were being lulled into a dangerous sense of complacency about relinquishing their financial autonomy. Why wasn't anyone telling the truth about how much they were sacrificing -- or what the consequences could be?

Click here to read the full article at the Huffington post.

Click here to read Leslie's blog posts at PowellsBooks.BLOG on the reaction to the publication of her book.

Commentary and Articles on The Motherhood Manifesto

Parenting: Mamafesto by Viv Groskop of The NewStatesman

The Motherhood Manifesto by Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner at The Nation

Rewriting the "opting out" narrative by Heather Hewett of the Motherhood Movement Online

The Motherhood Manifesto by Ruth Rosen of TomPaine.com

The Motherhood Manifesto by Tracey-Kay Caldwell if BellaOnline

JOAN BLADES - The cofounder of MoveOn.org on what American women really want for Mother’s Day by Mindy Farabee of Los Angeles City Beat

Mother's Group Wants 'Progressive' Family Solutions by Kate Monaghan of CNSNews.com

A Layer Cake for Mother's Day by Kelpie Wilson of truthout

One Thing in Common: Mothers by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner at the Huffington Post

'Manifesto' is moving mom issues to the forefront by Susan Paynter of Seattlepi.com

New Online Grassroots Organization for Moms Encourages Activism, Sharing Stories, Challenging the Status Quo at PrideParenting.com

New group pursuing mom power by Cindy Richard of Chicago Sun-Times

Commentary on What Women Really Want

• What do women really want? by Suzanne Fields of Townhall.com (November 3, 2005
• What do women really want? In politics, they don't have the blues -- they have the purples by Ann McFeatters (October 23, 2005)

Commentary on I Don't Know How She Does It

A Jewish woman's perspective - "I don't know how she does it" by Emuna Braverman at aish.com

From Salon.com - "The all-too-female cluelessness of I Don't Know How She Does It" by Ann Marlowe and the letters in response to her article (You'll need a "day pass" or membership to Salon.com to view.)

At Slate.com - "I don't know how she does it - books dissected over email" by Karen Karbo (author of Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me : A Novel and a contributor to The Bitch in the House) and Maria Russo (senior editor at the New York Observer)

Commentary on Perfect Madness

"The Motherhood Problem - On “Perfect Madness” and other matters" by Judith Stadtman Tucker of The Mothers Movement Online

"For Crying Out Loud - Do We Moms Really Want Our Kids to See Us Like This?" by Elizabeth Chang of the Washington Post (April 3, 2005)

"Mommy Madness" by Katy Read of Salon.com