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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1  The Stanford Survey

Part I  Professional Women and Children

Chapter 2  Is Having Children the Right Decision for Professional Women?
Experience: What Professional Women Say About the Decision
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Five Steps to Making the Decision

Chapter 3  Are Professional Women Good Mothers?
Experience: What Are the Priorities of Professional Women?
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Taking a Parenting Reality Check

Chapter 4  Is Guilt the Cost of Doing (or Not Doing) Business?
Experience: Professional Women and Guilt
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Eight-Step Plan for Dealing with Guilt

Part II  Children and Careers

Chapter 5  Do Professional Women Have to Choose Between
Career Success and Having a Family?
Experience: How Professional Women View Their Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Seven-Point Strategy for Enhancing Options

Chapter 6  Now, Later, or Never: Is There a Right Time in a Career to Have Children?
Experience: What Professional Women Say About Timing
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Deciding on Timing

Chapter 7  So Who's Doing It Right Anyway?
To Work or Not
Experience: What Professional Women Say About Working and Having Children
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Three Strategies for "Getting It Right"

Chapter 8  If I Work, What's the Best Way to Do It?
Experience: Evaluating Work Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Finding What Works

Chapter 9  Once I Have Children, What Do I Do with Them?
The Best Child Care for Professional Women
Experience: How Professional Women Rate Child-Care Options
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Securing the Right Child Care

Part III  Children, Careers, Relationships, and You

Chapter 10  The Right Partner
Experience: Attributes of the Right Partner for a Professional Woman
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Relationship

Chapter 11  Okay, So What Are the Essentials of a Successful Life?
Experience: What Matters to Professional Women and Why
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Assessing the Essentials

Chapter 12  Balancing the Equation
Experience: Pulling It All Together
Lessons Learned
Action Plan: Balancing the Personal-Professional Equation

A Final Note