Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit (reviewed below, Viking, $26) is a thorough investigation of a woman's struggle to achieve career contentment. While the 58 women who tell their stories in this collection have faced plenty of hardship and opposition while achieving their career distinctions, it's their various routes to satisfying work-from beekeeper to taxidermist to paralegal-turned-coffee roaster-that serve up healthy doses of inspiration, enhanced by Crisman's vivid photos. Women's Work: Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce (Simon & Schuster, $35) by Chris Crisman helps illustrate the breadth of work women do in the United States. In the shadow of another thwarted attempt to see the first woman elected as United States president, it's more important than ever that young women witness other women in a wide array of career fields to prove the reality of their social equality.
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