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Although these titles reaffirm women's need and right to work as well as to nurture, their different focuses minimize overlap. Shreve, a journalist and mother herself, evaluates the risks and rewards of being a working mother. At least one chapter ("Stresses and Strains'') counterbalances Shreve's obvious, albeit intelligent, bias, but the book generally lacks objectivity. Yet Shreve offers good documentation and thoughtful insights based on many interviews with researchers, mothers, and child specialists; wonderful glimpses of private moments with her daughter; and compressed accounts of other mothers' lives. If there is any resemblance to Sanger's REAP program, it's in the prescriptive chapter,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More