Myra H. Strober (born c. 1940) is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at

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, US. She also sits on the editorial board of ''

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'', and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 1997 to 1999.

Education

Myra Strober received her degree from

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in 1962. In 1965 she gained a masters in economics from

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. Her economics doctorate came from

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in 1969.

Personal life

Strober was married to fellow

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professor

Samuel Strober Samuel Strober (-) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for life long immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients. Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and ...

, and the two had two children. She then married psychiatrist Jay M. Jackman until his death in January 2022.

Selected bibliography

Books

* Strober, Myra H; Gordon, Francine E (1975). Bringing women into management. New York: McGraw-Hill. . * Strober, Myra H; Dornbusch, Sanford M (1988). Feminism, children, and the new families. New York: Guilford Press. . * Strober, Myra H; Davisson, Abby (2023). Money and Love An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions. San Francisco, California: HarperOne. . * Strober, Myra H; Chan, Agnes M K (1999). The road winds uphill all the way gender, work, and family in the United States and Japan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. . * Strober, Myra H (2016). Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. . * Strober, Myra H (2011). Interdisciplinary conversations challenging habits of thought. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. .

Journal articles and chapters in books

* Strober, Myra H.; Jackman, Jay M (April 2003). "Fear of feedback". Harvard Business Review. 81 (4): 101–7, 124. PMID 12687924. * Strober, Myra H.; Chan, Agnes (1998). "Husbands, wives, and housework: graduates of Stanford and Tokyo Universities". Feminist Economics. 4 (3): 97–127. . * Strober, Myra H. (2002), "What's a wife worth?", in Yalom, Marilyn; Freedman, Estelle; Carstensen, Laura; et al. (eds.), Inside the American couple: new thinking, new challenges, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 174–188, * Strober, Myra H. (1998). "Introduction: this one's for you, Barbara". Feminist Economics. 4 (3): 1. . - Tribute edition for Barbara Bergmann. * Strober, Myra H; Cook, Allen; Fuller, Kasi Allen (1997). "Making and correcting errors in student economic analyses: an examination of videotapes". The Journal of Economic Education. 28 (3): 255–271. . * Strober, Myra H; Cook, Allen; Fuller, Kasi Allen (1997). "Making and correcting errors in student economic analyses: an examination of videotapes". The Journal of Economic Education. 28 (3): 255–271. .

References

External links

Myra H. Strober
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University *
"Myra H. Strober: An Oral History,"
Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2014.
"Pioneering Women Tier II: Women Faculty Hired at Stanford in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s,"
Stanford Historical Society Panel Discussion, 2016. 21st-century American economists Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations alumni Date of birth missing (living people) Feminist economists 1940s births Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni Presidents of the International Association for Feminist Economics {{US-economist-stub