In recent decades, there has been a revolution in women’s education and employment, which has created enormous monumental changes not only in our work organizations, but also in our personal relationships and child rearing. But the revolution is unfinished. What do women and men, work organizations, and governments need to do now to complete the revolution?

Can we have a society in which women can have both power and intimacy?

Dr. Myra Strober is a labor economist at Stanford University, where she is both Professor of Education and Professor of Business (by courtesy).

Dr. Strober was the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Women (now the Institute for Research on Women in Gender) and in 1993-94, served as the Chair of the Stanford Provost’s Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty. From 1998 to 2000 she served as the Program Officer in Higher Education for Atlantic Philanthropies.

Dr. Strober’s research has focused on gender issues at work and she has written on occupational segregation, women in the professions and management, the economics of childcare, and feminist economics. She has also been an expert witness in cases involving the valuation of work in the home, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment.

She has consulted with several corporations on improved utilization of women in management and on work-family issues. With Dr. Jay Jackman she has written on “Fear of Feedback,” (Harvard Business Review, April 2003) and Why Senior Women Leave Organizations.

Dr. Strober’s most recent book, co-authored with Agnes Chan, is “The Road Winds Uphill all the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan (1999).” She is also the co-editor of Bringing Women into Management (1975).

Dr. Strober has a BS degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, an MA in economics from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.