And What Do You Do?

And What Do You Do? reveals the trend among married women who choose to put their husbands' careers first (some for a few years, others for decades) while carving out their own lives on the home front and beyond. Through dozens of personal interviews, the authors, who themselves made this decision, explore how partnering gives wives equal voice in marriage; why they choose to backburner their careers; how they retool job skills into new, emotionally rewarding work; how they negotiate with their husbands to take turns with career priorities; and how their gifts of love and time to their families come back tenfold.

Loretta Kaufman has written dozens or articles for publications such as Money and Good Housekeeping, and was the New York correspondent for Live magazine for three years. She lives in Los Angeles. Mary Quigley is the author of numerous articles for national magazines, including Good Housekeeping and Newsday. She is a journalism professor at New York University and lives in New York. They are the authors of Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms.