Ambitious Like a Mother: Why prioritizing your career is good for your kids. Talking with Lara Bazelon.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeMay 24, 202235m

Ambitious Like a Mother: Why prioritizing your career is good for your kids. Talking with Lara Bazelon.

The San Francisco Experience

EpisodeMay 24, 202235m

In her latest book, Lara Bazelon demolishes some popular myths about working Moms : the perfect life/work balance, the selfless mother and toxic female ambition among other tropes. She calls on women to embrace the imbalances of working and raising kids and to demand flexibility in the workplace and the home. The book is a blend of personal memoir and interviews of numerous career women and their stories. Lara shares her professional and personal accomplishments in this warm, fast paced interview.

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We are a "deep dive" news podcast, for Americans who get their news from the Internet. Our mission is to give the listener succinct, fact based analysis both non-ideological and independent from a California, Silicon Valley perspective. Your host Jim Herlihy is a published author: his novel “Deceit and Dirty Money” is available on line. He served as President of the SF Public Library Commission 1992 - 1996. While working in Latin America, he was a stringer for The Economist, The Times and the BBC. Jim serves as a director on two SF sister city boards : Bangalore, India and Cork, Ireland.

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