An edition of Sharing the work (2016)

Sharing the work

what my family and career taught me about breaking through (and holding the door open for others)

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An edition of Sharing the work (2016)

Sharing the work

what my family and career taught me about breaking through (and holding the door open for others)

  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

"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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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
238

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.092, B
Library of Congress
HB119.S76 A3 2016, HB119.S76 A3 2015, HB119.S76A3 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 238 pages
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27225759M
Internet Archive
sharingworkwhatm0000stro
ISBN 10
0262034387
ISBN 13
9780262034388
LCCN
2015039699
OCLC/WorldCat
948631759

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