The Feminine Mistake - Should Women Sacrifice Careers for Family?

Description: Complete video at: fora.tv Author and Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Leslie Bennetts discusses the origins of her book, "The Feminine Mistake," and examines difficulties faced by women who quit their careers to become stay-at-home mothers. ----- Leslie Bennetts talks about "The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?" Renowned Vanity Fair journalist Bennetts rekindles the debate over women's life choices with a new book that redefines the work-family question. She offers a persuasive argument that women can - and should - make more than one kind of mark on the world. - Book Passage Leslie Bennetts has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1988, writing on subjects that have ranged from movie stars to priest pedophilia, industrial pollution and US anti-terrorism policy. Her 2005 cover story on Jennifer Aniston was the best-selling issue in the magazine's history to date, and the People magazine cover story about Bennetts' interview with Aniston was the best-selling issue in the history of People. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Bennetts spent fifteen years as a newspaper reporter. She started covering so-called "women's issues" at The Philadelphia Bulletin in the early 1970's, and has continued to write about women, marriage, families and parenting ever since.