cover graphic.png

A new book providing women with the information, research and support they need to forge their own positive path through work and motherhood.

 

 

About Maternal Optimism

Maternal Optimism Landscape Orientationjpg.jpg

While the challenges and struggles of working motherhood are real, this book looks to shift the conversation. We want women to use this book to feel more confident and positive about the choices they are making as they forge their own positive path through work and motherhood.

About the Authors

Copy of DSC_2154.JPG

Jamie Ladge is an Associate Professor in the Management and Organizational Division at Northeastern University. Danna Greenberg is the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College. The authors have decades of experience researching, speaking and consulting with individuals and organizations on work/life integration.

Press & Media

Jamie and Danna have been featured on Harvard Business Review Women at Work Podcast and in The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. Click on the link below to access their latest podcasts, interviews and press.


 

“Maternal Optimism should be in greater demand than ever before as more young women are graduating from college, having babies, and continuing with their careers. An engaging, thoughtful, and useful volume told through the experiences of many mothers, and the research findings of the authors and others. It is both an academic study of today’s working mothers and a ‘how to’ book on being a successful working mother by two women who are.”

-Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University