Rhona Rapoport

Rhona Valerie Rapoport (29 January 1927 – 24 November 2011) was a South African social scientist known for her research into work-life balance. Rapoport's 60 years of research and writing focused on work, life, gender, equity, and diversity. She did this by working closely with her husband and government agencies in a number of different countries. 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.

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. 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".

Rapoport died in 2011. Her ashes were buried with her husband's on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Personal life Rhona was married to Robert Rapoport (1924-1996). They had two children together.