Rabota posvyashchyena psikhologii kar"ery v tselostnom kontekste zhizni individa, ne ogranichennom lish" professional"noy sferoy, no s neyu neposredstvenno svyazannom. Voprosy kar"ery osveshchayutsya s tochki zreniya analiza opredeleniya dannogo ponyatiya, podkhodov k psikhologicheskomu izucheniyu kar"ery, raznovidnostey i etapov kar"ery, vklada individual"no-psikhologicheskikh osobennostey sub"ekta v vybor i postroenie kar"ery. Takzhe kniga soderzhit analiz kar"ery s tochki zreniya gendernogo podkhoda. Rassmatrivayutsya voprosy o tom, kakie otlichiya sushchestvuyut v traditsionnykh i sovremennykh muzhskikh i zhenskikh kar"erakh, kakie faktory vliyayut na vybor i postroenie kar"ery muzhchinami i zhenshchinami, kakie prioritety, tsennosti i prepyatstviya v kar"ere u lyudey raznogo pola. Chto predpisyvaet i kakie ramki stavit obshchestvo muzhchinam i zhenshchinam v ikh kar"ere. Kak mogut sootnosit"sya semeynye i professional"nye tsennosti u sovremennykh lyudey. Kakie psikhologicheskie posledstviya nesyet v sebe sochetanie sem"i i kar"ery dlya muzhchin, zhenshchin i ikh semey. Pochemu trudnosti vypolneniya mnozhestva roley sochetayutsya s povysheniem udovletvoryennosti zhizn"yu. V obshchem, kak sem"ya i rabota meshayut i kak pomogayut drug drugu.