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Summary: You Can Always Manage
Review: Her novel was well written, Itshows that there is always time for evrything. Women also have the ability to do what their role models teach them, which can give them theability to do anything.
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Summary: You Can Always Manage
Review: Her novel was well written, Itshows that there is always time for evrything. Women also have the ability to do what their role models teach them, which can give them theability to do anything.
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Summary: How Jane Won
Review: How Jane Won is an inspirational book of success stories of women of every race, age, and occupation. It shows how success is something each individual must define for themselves, because ultimately, success is whatever makes you happy. This book shows how modern women can achieve success and happiness, and is full of practical advice and inspiration. You'll probably find yourself rereading stories that you can relate to and others that are role models of what you'd like to accomplish. A great book!
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Summary: A real pleasure
Review: I bought this book on Saturday at the local bookstore and read through it in a weekend. Now I am online to buy one for my siste r and daughter. Beautiful and moving stories of famous and not so famous women. Some are quite funny and others made me weep, but each one is unique. I marked a few for re-reading when I need a little inspiration or a quick pick-me-up. Thank you Dr. Rimm for giving me a chance to see what has helped other women to be happy with their life and career.
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Summary: The Whole Story
Review: I enjoyed reading this book because it wasn't some tedious self help guide that just went on and on with the author's personal philosophy. This book presented the material it did and got across the message it did by using real peoples' experiences. That not only made for a more interesting read but simaltaneously proved it's philosophy to be applicable to everyday life. There is no better way to instill a motivation, in this case the belief that it is entirely possible for women to succeed, than to use examples. By reading these stories and following the women from childhood on, the route they took to their accomplishments becomes very comprehensive and seems manageable. In a small way this book showed me that if one takes the right steps, it is possible to achieve great things.
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Summary: The Whole Story
Review: I enjoyed reading this book because it wasn't some tedious self help guide that just went on and on with the author's personal philosophy. This book presented the material it did and got across the message it did by using real peoples' experiences. That not only made for a more interesting read but simaltaneously proved it's philosophy to be applicable to everyday life. There is no better way to instill a motivation, in this case the belief that it is entirely possible for women to succeed, than to use examples. By reading these stories and following the women from childhood on, the route they took to their accomplishments becomes very comprehensive and seems manageable. In a small way this book showed me that if one takes the right steps, it is possible to achieve great things.
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Summary: Shoul Read!!!
Review: I had to read this book for my Econ class. I attend Santa Monica High School. I very much like this book. It was very overwhelming. I would recommend this book to all the people who has less expecting on women.
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Summary: How Jane Won
Review: I liked this book very much because it talked about how these really great women over came obsticles in there lives,and how they did it. some of these storys are really touching becuase it is kinda unbelivebe how these people went through so much but still came out on top,and not all of these people's success comes from high paying jobs most of these people's success comes from there passion for what there doing.This is a inspiring book with inspiring storys.
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Summary: Chicks can be dudes too
Review: I read this book for a lass I was taking. I'd say read it if you want a bunch of short life storys of how "normal" women made big money. I am a guy and had a hard time relating so my feeling is that most guys will because the book dosn't sympathize for them. Oh well, you can't always win. Better luck next time. Read Fast Food Nation, it will change your life.
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Summary: Inspiring Stories of Successful Women
Review: In "See Jane Win", Dr. Sylvia Rimm and Dr. Sara Rimm-Kaufman studied and reported on 1,100 successful women. The women, who had indicated that they were happy with both their home and career lives, filled out survies about their lives. The results, which included such findings as biggest role models, birth orders, schools attended and activities participated in while young, served parents with information on possible ways to raise daughters. The short anecdotes about several survey participants served girls and young women with inspirational mini-biographies about women who had become what they themselves define as successful."How Jane Won", subtitled "55 Successful Women Share How They Grew from Ordinary Girls to Extraordinary Women" includes more autobiographies by such women. The book is divided into six sections of careers: the Lawmakers and Adjudicators, the Shatterers of Glass Ceilings, the Healers and Discoverers, the Nurturers, the Artists and Musicians, and the Communicators. Women telling their life stories range from astranauts to homemakers, and include Christina Whitman (Governor of New Jersey), Nydia M. Velazquez (US Congresswoman), Sandra Day O'Connor, Cathleen Black (President of Hearst Magazines), Eileen COllins (NASA Astrnaut and Space Shuttle Commander), Alexa Canady, M.D. (Pediatric Nerosurgeon), Martha Aarons (Flutist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra), Jane Pauley (Anchor, NBC News and Dateline), Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch actress), and Jacqauleyn Mitchard (bestselling author). Although one would fear this book would turn into a Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul, most of the stories do an amazing job of staying on the practical and real side instead of the corny and romantic one. Most of the stories are insprirational yet helpful. Many girls would be inspired by reading about the lives of these successful women, and many women who wish to advance in their own education or career would also find these stories interesting. One important thing many women in the book point out is how hard it was for them in the beginning of their career, before women had won many of the rights and status we too often take for granted. Cathleen Black, President of Hearst Magazines, writes "When I talk to teenage girls, it's hard for them to imagine that these opportunities didn't always exist. I dont' know that it's real for them. They're skeptical when I tell them they couldn't have gotten a loan or gone to Harvard in my era." Likewise, Katherine Hudson, President and CEO of Brady Corportation, writes, "When I wrote my resume, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. None of the companies were interested in my doing financial work, despite my gruaduatin first in the class. The salary offers were for about half of what the guys in class were being offered. This was in 1968, before affirmative action." A positive point about "How Jane Won" is that it advoids the materialism found in "See Jane Win". The biggest critique of that book is that women were defined as successful almost exclusively when they held jobs women were previously unable to or when they made a great amount of money. In "How Jane Won", however, the women who share their stories may or not be financially successful, but they are successful because they are happy. Women who hold "traditional" jobs like teachers, nurses, and homemakers are not excluded like they are in most of "See Jane Win", and this sends the important message that girls can and should do whatever makes them happiest, whether that is becoming a nuclear physicist or a street musician. One critique that can be made of "How Jane Won", however, is its exclusion of "untraditional" family women: women who do not marry at all or who are lesbians. There is one lesbian whose story is included, as well as a few women who never had children, but besides for this the emphasis seems to be that women are only successful when they are not only happy with their work but when they also have a "typical, all-American" family system. It would be nice to see greater diversity in the See Jane Win series, if there are to be any more in the future. Instead of being overloaded with cheesiness as one might expect, most of "How Jane Won" is full of practical advice and inspiration. Both girls and parents alike will find themselves liking and rereading certain stories they find most relevant to their lives, and this will positively influence many readers. ...
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