Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (June 2009)

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“A personal, provocative, and challenging book for career women who want less guilt, more life.” —Diane Sawyer

Womenomics, the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, is an invaluable guide for this generation of professional women, provide knowledgeable advice on how to “Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better.” Shipman and Kay, two TV journalists well acquainted with the stress of the workplace, describe the new economic trends that offer today’s overworked working women more professional and personal choices than ever before. At last, you no longer have to do it all to have it all—Womenomics shows you how.

WOMENOMICS is the 4-Hour Weekwork for women: a guide that shows every professional woman can work and have time for kids, elderly parents, or that marathon she's always wanted to run.

Veteran journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay marshal the evidence to show how women's management style is ideally suited to the new business world, resulting in more profitable companies with happier employees. They also show how women can use this power to get what they really want- more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time and freedom in their jobs without falling off the professional ladder. Most women will happily trade some responsibility and some cash for more time-that's the new currency.

Both positive and practical, WOMENOMICS shows women how to redefine success, be more productive, say no, and find jobs that don't require an all-or-nothing lifestyle. Shipman and Kay give personal accounts from their own lives- the mistakes as well as the triumphs- and they share the stories of women around the country who have carved out great work-life scenarios. Above all they stay positive, encouraging and humorous.

About the Authors: Claire Shipman is the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America and a regular on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Previously, Shipman was the White House correspondent for NBC News and a reporter for CNN in Moscow, where she earned multiple awards for her coverage of the demise of the Soviet Union. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.

Katty Kay is the Washington correspondent and anchor for BBC World News America. She is also a contributor to Meet the Press, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Chris Matthews Show, and a regular guest host for Diane Rehm on NPR. Kay grew up in the Middle East and now lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and four children.