In the 1960s, about 38 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the home, and by the 2000s, 75 percent did. Work: The section on Work starts with the statistics. Her book addresses the causes and effects of time confetti, and possible solutions. The cover of the book is a visual depiction of time confetti. She describes our modern schedules as "time confetti" – a wonderfully descriptive image. Why are we, beneficiaries of the widest opportunities for education, good health and advancement ever known for women, living such miserable, stressed-out lives? Is it our jobs? Our families?īrigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post with two school-age daughters. Welcome to our lives – the lives of early 21st century working women juggling responsible careers, family, home and marriage without catastrophe! How did we get here? We have the kind of lives that our mothers and grandmothers fought hard to achieve, so that we, their daughters and granddaughters, could indeed grow up to be anything we wanted, including doctors, scientists, astronauts and, yes, even lawyers. The cell phone I'd just been using to talk to one of my kids' teachers has disappeared into the seat crack. The car tax sticker on my windshield has expired. on a Tuesday and I am racing down Route 1 in College Park, Maryland. Brigid Schulte begins this easy-to-read book that both hits home painfully and hilariously mirrors so much of the "overwhelm" of our lives, with a word picture: It is just after 10 a.m.
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