Have you started reading your book yet?

Hopefully, most of you have received your book for the work/family conflict reading groups. Now don't be tempted to just set your book off to the side, thinking you'll get to it soon. Before you know it, the book will disappear, buried under junk mail, bills, school work and all the other "stuff" that comes through our door everyday.

I know, many of you are wondering when the heck are you going to find time to read. That is why I want to encourage you to take a look inside your book, start reading the first few pages. I think once you see how relevant the issues are to your own life, you are going to want to read more.

I'll be honest with you, I haven't finished reading my book yet either. I read Competing Devotions last year, so I'm reading Taking on the Big Boys now. I take it with me to work everyday and read a bit of it while I'm eating lunch at my desk, or when I'm waiting for some printing job to finish. It is somewhat slow going for me, as I keep stopping to underline passages, or write notes in the margins. But that is just an indication of how interesting I'm finding it. Actually, a lot of times I get really angry about what I read. Even though I'm pretty informed about the issues of work, gender and family, I can't help but being shocked by some of the stories Bravo shares. I'm also getting a lot of useful information, including Bravo's typologies of resistance to family friendly or gender equitable policies and examples of practices that employers have used to make their workplaces more family/woman friendly.

I'll be looking for posting's from all of you. I can't wait to hear what you think about your books.