When Work Doesn't Work Anymore - by Elizabeth Perle McKenna (Paperback)

About the Book

In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Perle McKenna challenges the outdated system of work for professional women, and encourages readers to re-examine work as their sole identities, and, if they are unhappy, to allow room for their lives. For every worn-out, emotionally depleted female professional who has ever sighed, "there has got to be a better way, " here is the revolutionary book that explores women's relationship with work.

Book Synopsis

For every worn out, emotionally depleted female professional who has ever sighed, "there has got to be a better way!," here is a groundbreaking audiobook by Elizabeth Perle McKenna--a former publishing executive--that explores women's relationship with work.

For decades, women have succeeded at traditional male jobs, but now, deep in the second stage of the feminist movement, they want lives that are integrated and whole. Based on original research and containing hundreds of interviews with prominent working women, this audiobook exposes the inherent conflict between the way work is traditionally structured and rewarded, and what women desire and value in their lives. More important, it suggests new ways for women to identify their values, reclaim their identities, and define success on their own terms. Any woman who has been working for more than a few years will identify strongly with the issues raised here, and will be rewarded by the insights she will glean from this insightful work.

Review Quotes

"McKenna's book will likely become influential ...Frequently quoting from her talks with Gloria Steinem, Anna Quindlen and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, McKenna ...joins their prominence as a voice worth listening to."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author

Elizabeth Perle McKenna is a graduate of Yale University. She worked in the publishing profession for eighteen years, holding publisher positions at Prentice-Hall, Addison-Wesley, William Morrow/Avon Books. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.