Sharing the work : what my family and career taught me about breaking through (and holding the door open for others) / Myra Strober ; foreword by John Donahoe.

By:

Strober, Myra H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780262332095
0262332094

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sharing the work.DDC classification:

330.092 23

LOC classification:

HB119.S76

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I 1970 -- 1971 -- 1. Sisterhood Is Powerful, 1970 -- 1971 -- pt. II 1950 -- 1970 -- 2. Banished to the Balcony, 1950 -- 1953 -- 3. Boost Up, 1954 -- 1958 -- 4. Into the Sanctum, 1958 -- 1964 -- 5. Add Children and Stir, 1964 -- 1970 -- pt. III 1971 -- 2012 -- 6. Where the Rubber Hits the Road, 1971 -- 1972 -- 7. Ninety Men and Me, 1972 -- 1974 -- 8. Forging New Doors, 1974 -- 1981 -- 9. Reinvention, 1982 -- 1989 -- 10. Flow, 1989 -- 2000 -- 11. Transformation, 2000 -- 2012 -- 12. Lessons Learned about Sharing the Work.

Summary: "Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's generous memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood (and her shock at age twelve when she's banished to the women's balcony atshul) to her groundbreaking Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits."--Provided by publisher.

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"Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's generous memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood (and her shock at age twelve when she's banished to the women's balcony atshul) to her groundbreaking Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits."--Provided by publisher.

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