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Sharing the Work - What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others) (Paperback)
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Sharing the Work - What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others) (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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The tumultuous life and career of a woman who fought gender bias on
multiple fronts-in theory and in practice, for herself and for us
all. "Myra Strober's Sharing the Work is the memoir of a woman who
has learned that 'having it all' is only possible by 'sharing it
all,' from finding a partner who values your work as much as you
do, to fighting for family-friendly policies. You will learn that
finding allies is crucial, blending families after divorce is
possible, and that there is neither a good time nor a bad time to
have children. Both women and men will find a friend in these
pages." -Gloria Steinem 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 at shul)
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. In the
1970s, the term "sexual harassment" had not yet been coined.
Occupational segregation, quantifying the value of work in the
home, and the cost of discrimination were new ideas. Strober was a
pioneer, helping to create a new academic field and founding
institutions to establish it. But she wasn't alone: she benefited
from the women's movement, institutional change, and new federal
regulations that banned sex discrimination. She continues the work
today and invites us to join her.
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