Working Daughter - O'Donnell, Liz
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Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called on to care for their parents. Working Daughter sparks the conversation we so desperately need to have about women and the workplace. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day and a shortage of caregivers predicted in the next few years, it's time we talk about how family caregivers and their employers will face the impact of a rapidly aging society. There are plenty of books about managing career and children, but little advice on how to balance career and parents - along with children, marriages, and friendships. Working Daughter provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers. This book is for women who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges of eldercare, the choices they will need to make, the aspects of caregiving they can control, and that which they cannot. And finally, Working Daughter shows family caregivers how they can achieve the caregiver's gain-the underreported but well-documented upside to caring for an aging parent.
Autorenporträt
Liz O'Donnell is an author, speaker, and consultant to women who want to thrive and the organizations that want to reach and mobilize them. Her book, Mogul, Mom & Maid: The Balancing Act of the Modern Woman (Bibliomotion, 2013), spent weeks as an Amazon Hot New Release and as a bestseller in the Women and Business category. Her first blog, Hello Ladies, was named one of the top 100 websites for women by Forbes, a Best of the Net by Working Mother Magazine, and a Voice of the Year by BlogHer three years in a row. It was also a finalist for a Stevie Award (the world's premier business awards), in the Blog of the Year category. Liz has written articles about the challenges of working daughters balancing careers and caregiving for numerous national publications including The Atlantic, Forbes, TIME, and PBS' Next Avenue. She has also written about balancing career and motherhood for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Globe and Mail, and Daily Worth. Liz has been a repeat guest expert on Good Day Sacramento, one of California's highest-rated morning news programs, a regular guest on the podcast Your Caregiving Journey, and she hosts a monthly local cable show about caregiving that reaches 130,000 viewers in the Greater Boston area. CNN, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Investor's Business Daily, and Care.com have all cited her as an expert on women in the workplace. A dynamic and highly sought after speaker, Liz has delivered talks and led workshops at Harvard University, Symantec, The Mass Conference for Women, Wake Forest University, Babson College, Emerson College, the Marketing To Moms Conference, Women in Technology International, the International City/County Management Association, Regions Bank, Ellevate Network, and the Mom 2.0 Summit. She is the co-founder of SheStarts, an organization that supports the growing pipeline of women entrepreneurs in Boston through networking, coaching, and events, and, as a result of this initiative, she was invited by the Mayor of Boston to help plan the city's first women's entrepreneur week and to create a channel for female founders on Medium, the blogging platform started by Twitter's co-founders. Liz, who also co-founded Women in Democracy, a non-partisan organization that seeks to engage more women in local politics, currently serves on her town's Warrant and Finance Committee and is the former chair of the town's Sustainability and Advisory Committee. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and two children, and she is the primary caregiver to her 90-year old dad.