My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay

Influenced by her own working mother, ad exec and novelist Lois Wyse, working mother Goldman extrapolates from personal experience to encourage her peers as they juggle career and family responsibilities. She outlines 12 ``Principles of Working Motherhood'' (e.g., ``Children who know what their mothers do all day at work are more inclined to tell their mothers what they do all day at school''), then fleshes out each with interviews with women whose mothers worked. Goldman finds her respondents appreciative of the early independence thrust upon them and, in general, aware of the positive roles their mothers played in their lives. With a light touch, she describes how she followed Wyse's footsteps in the advertising industry and how she herself now copes with motherhood. Her upbeat, lively report suggests that some women--especially those who have nannies to care for their children--have it all. Author tour. (May)