Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
This guide for retired career women or those about to make this life change starts out coolly but warms up to a friendly support-group style discussion of the psychological pitfalls associated with leaving a life of work. The authors, a psychologist and a workplace-issues expert who founded a networking organization by the title’s name, illustrate their approach to retirement as renewal. The book’s businesslike title is a bit misleading; chapters are short and punchy and lacking detailed how-tos on the practical points of retirement, such as exit strategies or financial planning. The book’s strengths lie in its you’re not alone tone, with anonymous anecdotes and quotes from the mostly married, 60-something women. (Read more…)
Tags: career, renew, retirement, Women
Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
In a time when How Not to Look Old is a bestseller, and the women who came of age during the 1960s are now in their 60s, outspoken women’s movement veteran Levine (Inventing the Rest of Our Lives) advises women 50-plus to reject the desire to recapture youth and acknowledge their great good fortune in arriving at a point where they can creatively enhance the rest of their lives. Citing Madeleine L’Engle’s observation, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been, Levine uses this book to air and explore her own feelings, and those of other women, about moving from the “F-You” Fifties to a pleasanter, stress-defusing outlook. (Read more…)
Smart Women Don’t Retire — They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time
Aug 17, 2009 Careers After 50
Rentsch, a founding member of the Transition Network (a national community of women over 50 considering retirement), has extensively interviewed women approaching retirement, finding that they do so differently than men; their planning often leads to reflection and reassessment of who they are and what they want to do. Baby boomer women gained unprecedented recognition in their careers, with greater choices than earlier generations of women, and they will reshape the concept of retirement. Women may continue to work or find other ways to stay sharp and involved, intellectually and emotionally at the top of their game. Although our culture worships youth, the author views boomers’ large numbers as a sourc (Read more…)
