CHAPTER EIGHT

a womenomics world

If this is your moment to move on, congratulations. If you’ve quit, been poached, or even been laid off, the future looks rosier than the past. You may be feeling nervous and insecure, but your prospects, and the prospects for all women yearning for workplace sanity, are better than ever. Across the country, companies are instituting flexibility as a standard work practice, which often does away with the need for those agonizing individual negotiations. You’ve embarked on your search at just the right time—the work life you want is within reach.

Instead of trying to make an existing job bend to fit what you need, you may be able to find a new model built to suit. No retrofitting! And by the way, this is the ...

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