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Work Pause Thrive

How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career

by Lisen Stromberg
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We worry putting our family first means we'll be forced to abandon our careers. We're afraid if we pause our careers, we'll be forever off-track. This thinking is outdated—forget what you've heard about how pauses are career limiting, about how those who pause lack ambition, or that if you do pause you won't be able to re-enter the paid workforce. That's a flawed reality, one that doesn't reflect the truth of the careers of some of the most successful women in this country.

Author Lisen Stromberg knows this success firsthand. After the birth of her second child, she did something she never imagined she would do: she opted out to focus on her family. But her career didn't end there. Lisen paused then pivoted to become first a social entrepreneur and then an award-winning journalist writing about women, work, and life in Silicon Valley. Along the way, she learned she wasn't alone. Lisen met many highly successful women who told her they never "opted out" but who had, in fact, temporarily downshifted or paused their careers. Their hidden journeys revealed alternative nonlinear paths to the top that enabled them to achieve their personal and professional goals.

In Work PAUSE Thrive, Lisen shares their stories. Deeply rooted in social science research, cutting-edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews, this book reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm. What worked for them can work for you.

In this book, you'll learn:

Who pauses, how they do it, and why

How pausing can enrich both your career and your life

How to innovate your own nonlinear career path

What we can—and need—to do as a society to make it possible for more people to achieve their personal and professional goals

Work PAUSE Thrive also reveals new and exciting trends in the workplace and offers targeted solutions for companies to help ensure they have cultures that will enable you to lead the life you want, a life in which you can build both a career and a family, and ultimately your own version of a life well lived.

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  • Release date

    January 31, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781942952749
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 19, 2016
      As Stromberg relates in her thoughtful debut, she never thought she’d interrupt her high-flying career as an ad exec. But after a pre-term labor scare during the second of her three pregnancies, her
      priorities changed, and she quit to be with her children. When ready to reenter the workforce, she rebranded herself as a
      journalist and consultant, deciding she’d paused her career rather than halting it. This book presents Stromberg’s personal view of how to navigate a work-over-family culture, sharing what she learned from her experience and from a survey of 186 mothers and several fathers with
      similar experiences. Using a sensitive yet no-nonsense approach, she discusses the trajectories of non-linear careers, the “mommy wars,” the politics of childcare, and the increasingly engaged role of men in their children’s lives. She also addresses ideal worker bias (a preference for the worker who is available at all hours) and motherhood bias (assuming that
      non-mothers are more committed to
      their jobs) in the workplace. Stuffed with
      realistic but inspiring stories and concrete advice, this is a healthy reminder that those who pause to place the personal before the professional are not failures. Agent: Brandi Bowles, Foundry Literary + Media.

    • Booklist

      Starred review from January 1, 2017
      This book is a must-read for every woman who values her career, wants to be available to raise children, and is ready to take on the worldby taking a pause. Those who read Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (2013) or Anne-Marie Slaughter's popular 2012 Atlantic article, Why Women Still Can't Have it All, will find this to be a welcome middle ground. With this breakthrough book, Stromberg demonstrates that she's a strong, detail-oriented journalist who weaves an engaging story. Readers will be hooked by the second page of the intro. In addition to sharing her personal experience, Stromberg shares the results of numerous interviews and close to 1,500 survey responses that focus on parents who re-enter a career after taking a pause, not just plowing through or opting out. She also provides useful strategies and examples for making the pause count, e.g., Strategy #1: Don't Skimp on Your Maternity Leave. Work Pause Thrive is what I wish I had when I was embarking on my journey as a woman, a professional, and a mother, writes the author. Readers around the country will want it, too. Highly recommended for public-library collections.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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