Career & Success

Achieving Balance In Work and Life

The constant pull between career and family is stressing us out. Professor of Economics Myra Strober says it doesn’t have to be that way.

August 22, 2017

| by Beth Rimbey

Myra Strober is the author of Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others). She teaches a class at Stanford Graduate School of Business that explores the pressures and politics shaping modern family life, and strategies to deal with both.

Economics , Career & Success , Government

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