This important book shares insights derived from surveys,
interviews, and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of
first-wave Baby Boomer female professionals (born 1946-1956). These
individuals changed the workplace in the 1970s and are now changing
views of retirement. In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby
Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are
interwoven with information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and
focus groups, thereby allowing readers to identify with individuals
similar to themselves, whether through profession, education,
personal concerns, or demographics. In spite of dissimilarities in
backgrounds, career paths, and personal experiences, these women
have much in common. As they leave their full-time careers, they
are committed to exploring new post-career identities while finding
ways to stay engaged, share their professional expertise, and
develop deeply held personal interests and passions they may have
set aside in the past. The Baby Boomer women profiled here reveal
details such as the early influences on their education and career
choices, the aspects of their careers they enjoyed the most, the
opportunities and roadblocks they encountered, as well as how they
balanced marriage and family responsibilities with their careers.
Readers will benefit from the examples set by these women, whose
diversity and varying experiences provide inspiration for nearly
anyone of retirement age who finds herself wondering "What's next?"
Provides a model for reflection to help Baby Boomer professional
women understand who they are, their strengths and interests, and
what they want to do as next steps when they leave their full-time
careers Offers compelling stories from women of a range of ethnic
and geographic backgrounds, professions, and employment statuses as
well as races, sexual orientations, and marital statuses to
represent a bright, engaged cohort of women to whom readers can
relate as colleagues Asserts a new, future-oriented concept of
retirement, where individuals draw on the strengths and expertise
of their careers while actively engaging with others and exploring
interests and passions they may have set aside in the past
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