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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (PT)
It's no secret that women continuously struggle with the "work-life" balance. Whether your single, married or have a family, it's difficult to be a successful business woman, a student, a Mom and actually find time to have a life. That is why Girls in Tech is excited to announce an AuthorChat featuring Sharon Meers, co-author of GETTING TO 50/50 on April 28th at Adaptive Path.
This informative, yet intimate presentation will provide a recipe to helping you put together all of the equally important puzzle pieces in your life in a productive and effective manner. This will be a learning experience to remember!
What's the book about?
GETTING TO 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All, presents an action plan for couples based on the simple belief that in order to achieve a successful work-life balance, there must be equal participation of both parents, offering a blueprint on how to successfully work with your husband, your boss, and yourself to fully embrace a 50/50 solution and tackle the conflicting priorities of child care, job demands, and home life responsibilities.
What will I learn from the discussion?
A 50/50 Mindset: Women need to take a stand in the home and in the work place. In order to get to 50/50, they must fully commit to letting husbands do half and relinquish some control. When women minimize their needs (at home and at work) they loose out on quality home/kid time, jobs, promotions, and benefits. Women and men must leave behind outdated thinking in order to change the status quo and work without worry and parent with joy.
A 50/50 Home Life: First step, replace the “I” with “We” and visualize yourselves as equally valuable partners. Second step, talk about who will do what as soon as you can—and make it a lifelong discussion. When fathers are engaged at home as equally as their wives, the workplace becomes a friendlier environment for mothers. Meers and Strober clearly illustrate how men benefit from the 50/50 solution, and they show women how not to sabotage their husbands' unique parenting efforts.
A 50/50 Work Life: Meers and Strober help identify a 50/50 employer, script how to tell your boss that you are pregnant, detail effective ways to prepare for maternity leave and make yourself an indispensable go-to person. They provide men with tools on how to lay the groundwork to negotiate paternity leave and flextime and they offer advice to both women and men on how to successfully integrate back into work life once the baby is born, and much more.
Who is Sharon Meers?
Sharon Meers was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. until April 2005, when she decided that it was time to write this book. In her 16-year career at Goldman, Sharon ran several businesses and became one of the few female managing directors on the West Coast. In addition to mentoring many women, Sharon co-chaired the Women's Network in the Investment Management Division, served on the diversity committees of two of the firm's divisions and developed a mentorship program that linked high-potential women to senior male advisors.
Sharon lives in the Bay Area with her husband Steve, a real-estate developer, and their son, age 7, and daughter, age 4. Sharon and Steve founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School which supports Stanford's ongoing work on workplace parity and a similar effort at Harvard University called the Dual-Career Initiative. Sharon also serves on the board of the National Women's Law Center and on the advisory council of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Research on Gender and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Harvard College, she holds an M.A. in Economics from New York University.
Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is an international law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers located throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. We focus on complex and novel finance and innovative corporate transactions, and litigation.
With more than 110 lawyers, Orrick's Emerging Companies Group has a unique focus on the business and legal needs of emerging companies and the venture capitalists and investment banks that support them. With a broad spectrum of practice areas and the resources of an international law firm with 21 offices on three continents, Orrick's Emerging Companies Group brings depth and breadth of experience to companies on the journey from the "garage" to the global marketplace.
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