THE SHRIVER REPORT eBook Exclusive

Free Press to Publish Tomorrow as an eBook Exclusive

THE SHRIVER REPORT: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, announced today that it would publish tomorrow as an eBook exclusive THE SHRIVER REPORT: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything edited by Heather Boushey and Ann O'Leary, with Karen Skelton, Ed Paisley, Leslie Miller, and Laura Nichols. The eBook will include an introductory chapter by Maria Shriver.

The report by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, THE SHRIVER REPORT: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, is a comprehensive portrait of today's American woman, based on a ground breaking national poll conducted by the Rockefeller Foundation/TIME, interviews with men and women around the country, and academic studies by leaders in their fields. The study reveals findings from all different areas of life -- business, education, religion, marriage, health care, etc. -- offering an unparalleled analysis of today's American worker and family now that women are half of the nation's workers and 40% of all mothers are primary breadwinners.

Shriver's experience from the California Women's Conference, which sold out in a matter of hours, inspired this landmark study which combines journalism and academics. "It hit me that something profound was going on with women," said Shriver. "We couldn't book enough sessions on empowerment, activism, entrepreneurship -- all of them were filled, and people were asking for more. That phenomenon inspired this book," she concluded.

Free Press Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Dominick V. Anfuso acquired the eBook from literary agent Jan Miller of Dupree Miller & Associates. Anfuso says, "Free Press is very proud to publish with Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress this important look at today's family and worker now that women are a critical part of America's economic engine."

John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress, said, "We've created a provocative study that we expect will spur a national conversation about what women's emerging economic power means for our way of life. At one level, everything has changed. And yet so much more change is needed. This report contemplates what a new America should look like after we finally embrace this important new dynamic in our lives and address the changes it has meant for American families, their home and the workplace."

**THE SHRIVER REPORT: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything is an eBook original and will be available wherever Simon & Schuster eBooks are sold or go to www.awomansnation.com today.

Free Press eBook; Publication date: October 20, 2009; ISBN: 1-4391-8763-0; 416 pages; $16.00

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