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Livestream: Joann S. Lublin on "Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life"

4:00pm sharp to 5:00pm EST livestream

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Speaker Series | Initiative for Women in Business

Date: Monday February 22, 2021 | 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Speaker(s): Joann S. Lublin, Former career columnist and management news editor at The Wall Street Journal. Shared its 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Author of two books about female business leaders.

In Conversation with: Beatrix Dart, Executive Director, Initiative for Women in Business, Professor, Strategy, Rotman School of Management
Topic: "Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life" (Harper Business, Feb 16, 2021)
Venue: The link to the livestream is included in the confirmation email you receive after you register.
Location: Online
Cost: $36.99 + HST per person (includes the link to the livestream and 1 hardcover copy of "Power Moms", shipped to customers after the event)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS: 
A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of women—boomers and GenXers—to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.

For the first time in American history, a significant number of mothers are heading major corporations, including General Motors, Ulta Beauty, and Best Buy. Over the past several decades, women have made gains throughout executive suites. Yet these “Power Moms” still struggle with balancing their management responsibilities with raising children. Joann S. Lublin draws on the experiences of the nation’s two generations of these successful women to measure how far we’ve come—and how far we still need to go.

Lublin combines her own insights with those of eighty-five executive mothers across industries—including experienced public-company chiefs such as Carol Bartz, the first woman to command Autodesk and Yahoo; Hershey’s Michele Buck, DuPont’s Ellen Kullman, ITT’s Denise Ramos, and WW International’s Mindy Grossman—and twenty-five of their grown daughters. Lublin reveals how trailblazer boomers, many now in their sixties, often endured sweeping disapproval for their demanding management careers, even as their own daughters sometimes rejected their choices. While the second wave of executive mothers—all under forty-five—handle working parenthood with less angst, they still lead stressful lives. 

Power Moms provides lessons and advice to help today’s professional women, their families, and their employers navigate this challenging terrain.  Lublin looks at the trade-offs mothers are too often forced to make between work and family and the root causes, including the dearth of large-scale paid parental leave and other family-friendly policies. While it celebrates the gains women have made, Power Moms makes clear how much more must be done to make being a working mother easier.


ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: 
Joann S. Lublin was management news editor for The Wall Street Journal, working with reporters in the U.S. and abroad, until she retired in April 2018.  She continues to frequently appear at conferences to discuss leadership, executive women and other management issues.  She created The Journal’s first career advice column in 1993 and kept writing its Your Executive Career column until May 2020. She shared its Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for stories about corporate scandals. She won the 2018 Lifetime Achievement from the Loeb Awards, the highest accolade in business journalism. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with honors from Northwestern University and a master’s degree in communications from Stanford University. She lives in Dresher, Pa.

Joann’s first popular leadership book, Earning It: Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the top of the Business World, offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about career obstacles they overcame.


SERIES HOST: Rotman Initiative for Women in Business

SERIES SPONSOR: Air Canada

QUESTIONS: Gheyana Purbodiningrat  | Gheyana.Purbodiningrat@rotman.utoronto.ca 


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