Baby Hunger: The New Battle for MotherhoodNearly half of all highly educated, high-earning women are childless. The more successful the woman, the less likely it is she has a partner or a baby. For men, the opposite is true: the more successful he is professionally, the more likely it is that he will be married with children. These women have not chosen to be childless. Indeed, most of them yearn for a baby and have gone to extraordinary lengths to become pregnant, often derailing their careers in the process. However, this volume reminds us that, despite the allure and apparent success of IVF treatment, only three to five per cent of women aged 40 and above manage to conceive this way. The age-old business of having babies is eluding an entire generation of successful women: they can be astronauts, chief executives, and politicans but, increasingly, they cannot be mothers. This text looks at why. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE US EDITION | 25 |
Ι STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES | 51 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achieving Women age group American assisted reproductive technology become benefits birth career and children career and family challenges chapter child childbearing childcare childfree childless clinics companies Cornel West corporate deal divorced doctors earn egg donor employees executive extremely fact feel female feminists fertility figure firm flextime forties graduate guys hard Harvard high-achieving women hours a week huge husband infertility Interview with author Jane Waldfogel Karen Maguire kids labor least less lives look Maggie Gallagher male managers marriage married months motherhood mothers multiple births older women options paid parenting leave parenting leave part-time partner Patricia Hewitt Pergonal predators pregnant problem professional women reduced-hour reproductive stories successful survey talked tell thing told U.S. Census Bureau ultra-achievers wage Wasserstein Wendy Wendy Wasserstein woman work/life policies workweeks York young women younger