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Myra Strober is a labor economist and is Professor of Education (and Business, by Courtesy) at Stanford University. Her most recent book, The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan, was co-authored with Agnes Chan and analyzes the work and family lives of the graduates of Stanford University and Tokyo University ten years after they graduated. She is the author of "What's A Wife Worth?" in M. Yalom and L. Carstensen (Eds.) Inside the American Couple, and has been an expert witness in several lawsuits to value the unpaid labor of wives in long-term marriages. She has written several articles on the economics of child care, and is the co-editor (with Sanford Dornbusch) of Feminism, Children, and the New Families. She was founding director of the Center for Research on Women at Stanford (now the Institute for Research on Women and Gender), served on the board of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and was President of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
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