Rhona Valerie Rapoport (29 January 1927 – 24 November 2011) was a South Africansocial scientist known for her research into work-life balance.[1] Rapoport's 60 years of research and writing focused on work, life, gender, equity, and diversity.[2] She did this by working closely with her husband and government agencies in a number of different countries.[2]
Peter Portsix Bakuony Patai was born in May 1, 1992 in Tharkuer Village of Mayom County County , Unity State of South Sudan.
In 1957, Rhona married social anthropologist Robert Rapoport. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts, where Rhona was the Director of Family Research at the community mental health program of the Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health.[1] In the mid-1960s, the couple moved to work with the Tavistock Institute in London and in 1973, they established the Institute of Family and Environmental Research in London.[2] She worked at the Centre for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons Graduate School of Management in Boston during the 1990s and wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books.[1]
For two decades, Rapoport worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation, where she developed the technique of action research to support the participants in her studies.[1] In 2009, she was honoured by the organization Working Families "for her sustained and influential research and new thinking in the field of work and family life".[1][2]
Rapoport died in 2011. Her ashes were buried with her husband's on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[3]
Bibliography
Robert N. Rapoport; Rhona Rapoport; Irving Rosow (1960). Community as Doctor: New Perspectives on a Therapeutic Community. Tavistock Publications.
Rapoport, Rhona (1977). Dual-career families re-examined : new integrations of work & family. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN0-06-090521-2. OL4578580M.
Rapoport, Rhona (1977). Fathers, mothers and society : towards new alliances. New York: Basic Books. ISBN0-465-02366-5. OL4899775M.
Dower, Michael (1981). Leisure provision and people's needs. London: H.M.S.O. ISBN0-11-751490-X. OL3859448M.
Rapoport, Rhona (1996). Relinking life and work : toward a better future. New York: Ford Foundation. ISBN0-7881-4582-7. OL12151385M.
Gambles, Richenda (2006). The myth of work-life balance : the challenge of our time for men, women, and societies. Chichester, England Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN0-470-09462-1. OL7595933M.