In an excerpt from Womenomics, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman say the career ladder is crumbling and women need to forge new paths that can accommodate personal ambition and family.
Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America and a regular on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Previously, Shipman was the White House correspondent for NBC news and a reporter for CNN in Moscow, where she earned multiple awards for her coverage of the demise of the Soviet Union. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
Women are the hottest business commodity around: They’re better educated than men, and companies that employ more women make more money. Womenomics authors Claire Shipman and Katty Kay say we should look for a “pink lining” to the recession.