by Megan Basham
First published 2008
Megan Basham explores how educated, skilled women are redefining what it means to stay home. These aren't traditional homemakers but career-credentialed women who use their expertise as their husbands' most important professional partners. Basham argues that choosing home as command central creates opportunities for stronger marriages and higher family incomes. By forgoing a second paycheck, wives gain time to mentor and advise their husbands toward career triumphs that multiply money and create financial freedom. The author profiles wives across different backgrounds, from those married to prominent figures like former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to women whose husbands succeeded outside the spotlight. These firebrands bring skills in public relations, accounting, and executive decision making to their partnerships. Rather than seeking spa days and lunches, they wanted intellectual satisfaction and the comfort of joint family missions. Basham shows how these trust-their-gut women found balance by helping their husbands achieve professional dreams while leading richly satisfying lives themselves.
Genres: family, business, relationships, non-fiction, 21st-century, academic
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, non-traditional-family
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