By identifying and analyzing the unique challenges women face in the workforce, this work offers cogent strategies for not only coping with the "third shift", a woman's inner dialogue that often second guesses her decisions and actions, but embracing it as a means of empowerment. Practical advice and proven recommendations are offered, based on research and years of professional and personal experience. Based on a three-year study of working women in Silicon Valley, this volume offers a plan for women juggling personal and professional commitments. Michele Bolton identifies three challenges she argues are unique to all women no matter what their workplace choice. Bolton believes that it is not the challenges themselves but the way women manage them that will decide whether their lives are in the end satisfying and harmonious or frustrating and meaningless.