Anne Wells Branscomb grew up in Georgia where she learned traditional social skills of southern women. These skills were the building blocks of her numerous professional successes. Considered ahead of her time, Anne coined the phrase information infrastructure in 1975, raised proprietary issues regarding the protection and ownership of information, and authored Who Owns Information? Using humor, satire, and wisdom, the book shares how she managed to successfully balance the demands of her profession while putting family first.
As a professional woman in a two career family I sometimes felt as though Anne was speaking to directly to me across the generational divide. What she shares is a balance that you rarely see in books about successful lives. She speaks of the homes she lived in as well as her career. She talks about making hard choices and balancing the goals of two talented people very much in love. The gender war is not usually a war on the home front, it is rather a complicated dance to the staccato music of the world.It is not necessary to appreciate her contributions to information law to embrace this book, but having that knowledge in the background allowed me to appreciate that while some over-use the phrase 'third way" some people truly have found such a path.
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