What can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? This work answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, it identifies what works and why.

Hewlett showcases what an elite group of companies are doing differently to retain talented women who are leaving promising careers and key leadership positions in order to achieve better balance between family obligations and work.