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Shatterproof is a memoir of my fifty-year struggle to climb corporate ladders and break the glass ceiling. It reveals the factors that contribute to women’s inability to get to the top, or once there, to stay on top. Much has changed in the last fifty years; much has not. Women continue to earn less than men in similar positions, and women are seldom groomed for top spots. I know why. My life demonstrates these factors. This timely subject continues to be in the media forefront. For fifty years in investment banking and college administration, I showed tenacity in facing professional challenges and enormous obstacles, climbing higher and higher to break through the glass ceiling. My career was fraught with heartache and filled with reward. My life was spent seeking success in an often-hostile world. I have proven to be as shatterproof as the glass ceiling. Women of all ages will identify and learn from the determination, strength, and success that has been my life.This creative, nonfiction memoir will appeal to ambitious women of all ages. It will resonate with women who have fought the battle. Younger women will discover much of what the previous generation has done to pave the way. Additionally, all ambitious women will become aware of and effect change to many of the remaining barriers to their success.Shatterproof is amusing, entertaining and dead-serious. My readers will identify with me throughout my upbringing, romances, heartbreaks, and career failures and successes.My graduate research of What Prevents Women From Achieving Top-Level Positions In U.S. For-Profit Corporations gave me a perspective on my own life, the discovery of which I have presented throughout my memoir.Though the struggle focuses on my career, the story is of my life, beginning with childhood where the seeds of ambition were planted. This portion of the memoir is not unlike The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. In it I build my character to face future career opportunities and obstacles. Another comparison can be to The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. My romance with my husband was very similar to that of Hadley and Ernest Hemingway. This book might also be compared to The Price of Illusion by Joan Juliet Buck. Said about that memoir: “An exploration of life's most gorgeous surfaces and agonizing depths. Buck's brilliant wit, her capacity to negotiate tragedy and her gift for self-analysis make the book riveting and unforgettable.” I only hope that my book will be received as these brilliant gems have been.
