Working Women for the 21st Century: Fifty Women Reveal Their Pathways to Success

From Library Journal High achievers always compel and fascinate us. Many readers will enjoy browsing through this collection of short (averaging four-to-six-pages) biographies/interviews of 50 women chosen as role models for different careers. It also might be effective as a general source of inspiration for women pondering career choices, as a resource for classroom assignments on women and careers, and as an exploration of different viewpoints on gender-related work issues, such as work-family conflicts and sex discrimination. As a source of specific biographical and career information, however, it is not an essential purchase. Many interviewees, such as Elizabeth Dole, Maria Shriver, and Chris Evert, are amply covered elsewhere in the popular press, Current Biography , or other sources. The short question-and-answer format becomes a little repetitious in a work of this length; some interviews are choppy and too brief (a single page, for example, for Sandra Day O'Connor). For high school, undergraduate, and public libraries.- Car ol Lewis Watwood, Western Kentucky Univ. Lib., Bowling GreenCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.