Women and Transition Reinventing Work and Life
Have you ever experienced a job loss, an empty nest, menopause, childbirth, marriage, divorce, infertility, retirement, a career change, a geographic move, a change in health status or other similarly weighty life event? Each one can begin a transition, a
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Women and Transition Reinventing Work and Life Linda Rossetti
WOMEN AND TRANSITION
Copyright © Linda Rossetti, 2015. All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-58079-8 ISBN 978-1-137-47655-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-47655-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rossetti, Linda. Women & transition : reinventing work and life / Linda Rossetti. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Career changes. 2. Women—Employment. 3. Work and family. 4. Work-life balance. 5. Career development. I. Title. II. Title: Women and transition. HF5384.R67 2015 650.1082—dc23
2015016048
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Dedicated to j, w, and s
Contents
List of Figures
ix
Introduction
xi
Section 1
Understanding Transition
Chapter 1
Change or Transition?
3
Chapter 2
A Simple Framework
29
Chapter 3
Our Reactions
43
Chapter 4
Is Transition Gendered?
57
Section 2 The Mechanics of Transitioning Chapter 5
A Process Overview
71
Chapter 6
Our First Steps
89
Chapter 7
Reaching Forward
Section 3
109
Navigating Transition
Chapter 8
Barriers to Transition
131
Chapter 9
Getting Started
147
Chapter 10
Your Journey
163
Acknowledgments
171
Notes
175
Index
181
Figures
1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 3.2 5.1 6.1 6.2 6.3 7.1 9.1
Three plateaus in adult mental development The three adult plateaus Transition’s anatomy Transition’s positive reactions Transition’s not-so-positive reactions The transitioning process The transition toolkit Fast first draft Excerpt of author’s strengths by prominence The transition toolkit Transition’s anatomy
24 24 32 48 49 76 92 93 102 112 150
Introduction
I
did not start out by sitting down to write a book about transition. I began by trying to reconcile a disconnect I experienced between society’s characterization of women’s progress and what I felt and experienced on the ground. There was a gap, an undeniable gap, between the narrative of women’s progress and what I saw all around me. While I had been immune to this gap for a long time, an experience that began in my mid-forties caused me to look deeper into what was going on with me and with women more broadly. Thanks to that inquiry, I found transition. I remember the first day of my transition vividly. It was January. I was
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