Welcome to Womenomics

As two working mothers, we’ve long grappled with the issue of how to balance the careers we so enjoy with the kids we absolutely love and adore. Not easy, as so many of you know. But guess what? We’ve found that it is becoming increasingly possible to do both, and to do both in a satisfying manner. And it’s largely thanks to a trend we call Womenomics.

Our power in the workplace and marketplace these days means that more and more we have the ability to define how we want to work–to get the flexibility or breathing room we need to have a saner life. A lot of us aren’t aware of this power we have–we weren’t really aware of it ourselves until we started pulling together research for our book!

And once you know about it, believe us, it’s intoxicating. For almost a year now we’ve been interviewing women all across the nation, and it’s been like lifting a lid off a long-brewing cauldron. Women in every profession are passionate, eloquent, and doggedly determined to find solutions. It’s our daily lives we’re talking about after all!

We want to start a larger conversation about work and children and choices on this blog. We’re going to post as often as we can, and point out interesting news and viewpoints we see on the subject. We’re starting with an op-ed we had in the Wall Street Journal last week on the Palin debate — our “Womenomics” take on the subject.

But most of all we’re eager to hear from you! We think an open discussion on the subject is critical. Please join this conversation, and let us know where you stand in this struggle to make it all work — something that clearly affects us all.