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Mika’s Choice

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Feb 8, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 20 • By SABRINA L. SCHAEFFER
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All Things at Once
by Mika Brzezinski
Weinstein, 288 pp., $24.95

 

Nearly 50 years after The Feminine Mystique, the consensus appears to be that women have achieved parity with men in nearly all aspects of their professional lives. The larger question still looming in many women’s minds is not about shattering glass ceilings but enjoying this equality. The recent Shriver Report, which discussed how government and communities can support a nation in which half the workforce is made up of women, was simply the most recent and well-publicized work in a line of research devoted to the new gender landscape. 

Overwhelmingly, the common theme is not how to achieve equality in the workplace but how to enable women to “have it all.” Is it possible for women to pursue careers while fulfilling their traditional roles as wives and mothers? What does it mean to succeed? And when will women finally be happy? All Things at Once is an attempt to understand this new gender equality and what it means for women and their families. The cohost of a popular cable television program, “Morning Joe,” Mika Brzezinski offers a tell-all of her climb up the competitive ladder of television journalism and her effort to do “all things at once.”

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