Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have it All by Sharing it All

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford is pleased to announce a book launch : Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have it All by Sharing it All (Bantam 2009). By Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober.

Sharon Meers was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. until April 2005. She serves on the advisory council of the Clayman Institute. Sharon and her husband, Steve, founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and the Dual-Career Initiative at Harvard. Together with co-author Joanna Strober, currently Managing Director of a fund investing in private equity partnerships at Sterling Stamos Capital Management and daughter-in-law of the Institute's founding director Professor Emerita Myra Strober, this new book provides tools and presents an action plan for couples on how to implement a 50/50 solution for tackling the conflicting priorities of child care, job demands, and home life responsibilities.

This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Community Center, Faculty Women's Forum and American Association of University Women (Palo Alto Chapter).

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Free and open to all.

Location: Women's Community Center, First Floor, Old Fire Truck House, 433 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA.

Books will be available for sale at the event. www.gettingto5050.com